If you haven’t already heard, Hackers compromised Microsoft support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts, according to an article on TechCrunch. The article states that “Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain limited number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft — which cover services like @msn.com and @hotmail.com —
You might think that the worst thing you can do with a phishing email is to click on the malicious link embedded within. You’d be wrong. There’s something worse, much worse. What’s that? How about forwarding the email to other employees, lots of them? A recent article on security website SC Magazine details all the
If you run a small or midsize business (SMB) and you’re concerned with phishing protection, there was a lot to read in the news last week. Let’s get the bad news out of the way. According to an article on Security Week website, Karl Racine, attorney general for the District of Columbia introduced a new
The bad news for Evaldas Rimasauskas of Lithuania is he’s facing up to 30 years in prison for scamming Facebook and Google out of $122 million. The good news is that he only has to pay restitution of about $50million. It’s not clear what’s happened to the other $73m, according to an article on BoingBoing.
When it comes to phishing attacks, you probably don’t give it a second thought when someone else gets phished. But maybe you should. According to a new article on the Help Net Security website, “Cybersecurity threats are a rising problem in society, especially for healthcare organizations. Successful attacks can jeopardize not only patient data, but
If you get hit with a phishing attack today, most likely it will be your mobile device. That’s because mobile is where hackers are spending their creative energy. According to an article on Hacker News this week, a new phishing attack was uncovered that is “based on the idea that a malicious web page could
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You can tell hackers are clever when they start to use the things you trust the most to exploit you. If you spend any time on the internet then surely you have encountered reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA, a system designed to establish that a computer user is human, was developed by engineers as Carnegie Mellon University and
In our phishing prevention best practices eBook, we provide ten best practices for small and mid-size businesses. We know these practices work. We know they’re right on point today. We want small and mid-size business to get and use this information. And once again we’ve been vindicated. Internet security company Webroot came out with their 2019
For most people, phishing scams are not high on the list of potential sources of comedy, although there are plenty of examples of blundering scammers and inept cybercriminals who got their due. When it comes to phishing awareness training for organizations, however, humor can be a powerful tool for maintaining compliance. Considering the alarming number of employees