Information Security

This articles shares how police in Lethbridge, Canada are warning their citizens about 'smishing' scams, which are phishing scams but in sms form. These texts will try to act as your mobile service providers or banks and send you messages requesting your personal information. These innocent citizens are thinking they are getting taking care of but actually getting taking advantaged of. In order to prevent yourself from being a victim always call your service provider before giving any personal information over text, even the providers themselves state they will never ask for any information over the phone.

Researches demonstrated how a simple radio technology could trick your phone into htinking it is paying at a merchant shop leaving your bank account vulnerable. This is done by having that technology near an apple device that has apple pay, and have another android device run a programming that read the code from your phone to the fake merchant and steal your information. Anyone with Apple Pay can be affected and to be protected. from it you can simply disable your Apple Pay settings or set the settings to only let you pay with a password.

In 2021 there was a big panic after the Colonial Pipeline system got hacked and was held in ransomware. This meant that the Darkside Gang would not give their system back unless they paid $4.4. billion in Bitcoin. This affected many citizens causing a major shortage in gas and increasing the prices overall. In order to prevent this from happening again, big companies need to invest thousands if not millions into cyber security so their information does not get held from them again.