Phishing Awareness

How To Protect Your Electronic Records Against Phishing

by Brad | Jul 21, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

With the fast pace of digital transformation today, businesses don’t have much choice other than doing all their transaction processing online, including the creation, storage, and retrieval of documents and records. According to a study conducted by Berkeley’s School of Information Management, University of California, organizations create more than 93 percent of their corporate data electronically. In such a scenario, the need for protecting your electronic records against social engineering attacks like phishing, vishing, spear phishing, SMiShing, etc. is of the utmost importance for any organization. This is the reason all the organizations today are now trying hard to implement a Cybersecurity framework that also encompasses anti-phishing techniques and deploy phishing protection control measures to safeguard their information assets.  

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What Is Domain Phishing, And Tips To Keep Your Business’s Domain Secure From Spoofing

by Brad | Jun 18, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

A study by Forbes concluded that there could be up to 3.1 billion domain spoofing emails being sent daily. The most common understanding of spoofing is associated with email spoofing. However, domain spoofing is a more significant threat to organizations. Furthermore, many organizations are unaware of how it can hurt business and how anti-phishing solutions and anti-ransomware solutions can protect them from spoofing.

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How To Strengthen Employee Security Awareness To Combat Phishing Attacks?

by Brad | May 22, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

In the highly digitized world, phishing attacks continue to jeopardize global organizations, targeting their employees. Considering humans to be an easily accessible line of defense when it comes to cybersecurity, awareness among staff is the need of the hour. When one finds one of the machines or systems vulnerable, one proactively fixes the issue. The same applies to employees who are humans. Besides deploying innovative anti-phishing solutions, one needs to deploy a good cybersecurity awareness program to prepare employees to mitigate attacks. 

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Spear Phishing- The Spooky Way to Compromise Sensitive Information

by Brad | Apr 29, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

It is a well-known fact that most of us in this digital era leaves behind our track or digital footprint online. While we don’t often get into troubles for doing so, our digital trails may be all that is needed by savvy scammers to get the better of us. There’s a scam operation called spear phishing that relies on information that is available online about a person or an organization to take advantage of them and to obtain illegal gains from them.

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Understanding Phishing & Types Of Phishing

by Brad | Apr 27, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Phishing is a kind of cyber-attack that is increasingly growing in popularity among hackers due to its simplicity of use and high potential rewards should the attacks prove to be successful. Phishing is usually done via email, popup ads, or even calls and involves deceptively fooling users into taking some action that ends up compromising them.

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A Brief Email Security & Phishing Safety Guide – Useful for IT and Email Administrators

by Brad | Apr 1, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Though phishing has its origins in the mid-1990s, it has gained tremendous relevance today. The entire business world relies on email as its prime communication channel. As email traffic has increased over the years, so have phishing attempts. Hence, it becomes essential for IT and Email admins to be constantly on their toes and keep employing innovative strategies to keep phishing at bay. The following Email Security and Phishing Safety Guide endeavors to touch upon these aspects.

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Here’s What Organizations Must Do To Avoid Phishing Scams While Their Employees Continue To Work From Home

by Brad | Mar 5, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

The effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic have drastically altered the way the world functions. Social distancing and lockdowns had to be exercised to curb the spread of Coronavirus. 91% of the world’s population were restricted from movement due to the lockdown as organizations shut down workplaces. However, they continued their operations to stay in business and out of bankruptcy. (more…)

Get an Insight on Various Types of Anti-Phishing Services

by Brad | Feb 23, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Cybercriminals invade into your enterprise’s information systems and figure out new ways and new vulnerabilities to execute more sophisticated phishing attacks. Human, time and again have proved to be the weakest link in the security chain before organizations take some preventive measures to stop phishing.

‘Anti Phishing Services’ are used to prevent phishing attacks against the individuals, systems or organizations.

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Lessons From The Past: 5 Substantial Phishing Attacks/Data Breaches Of The 21st Century

by Brad | Jan 20, 2021 | Phishing Awareness

Cybercriminals use malicious social engineering techniques to extract information from unsuspecting users, to launch phishing breaches. Website email scams and phishing email scams are the two most common methods used by attackers. A 2020 phishing attack survey by Greathorn reveals that IT leaders were remediating 1,185 phishing attacks each month, that’s an average of 40 each day! To help business leaders get a peek into the havoc these phishing attacks can cause, we have compiled a list of the five deadliest phishing attacks of the 21st century.

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Phishing Scams Smaller Businesses Must Look Out for During the Holiday Season

by Brad | Dec 10, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

A Microsoft report points out that there has been a 35% rise in phishing attacks. And that was not even the holiday season. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have shown around a 28% rise in online sales year after year. As promotions fill people’s inboxes,  phishing agents also find it an opportunity. It gives IT security specialists a hard time. They would begin to lure the individual with enticing emails and spoofed offers. It causes the unsuspecting user to click on spurious links and share their financial credentials.

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How Organizations Are Leveraging AI & Machine Learning To Prevent Phishing Attacks

by Brad | Nov 25, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

Hackers use social engineering in text messages and emails to launch phishing attacks on unsuspecting users and persuade them to share private information such as their login credentials or bank account details. Phishing schemes are becoming more advanced, and targeted attacks like spear-phishing are posing a threat to many organizations. While they deploy spam filters to counter malicious emails, the sophisticated ones quickly pass through these filters.

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A Hand-Guide To Know About Crypto Scams, Their Types And How To Avoid Them

by Brad | Nov 20, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

Ecash, the brainchild of Chaum and one of the first forms of cryptocurrency, was launched as an alternative to paper money in 1983. Such was the popularity of this “non-corporeal” currency that Digicash, the firm which was regulating this new monetary asset, was able to raise over $10 million in a decade. It was so because the general public liked the idea of getting rid of traditional money. In the year 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin, which was considered the first decentralized digital currency. Then, there was no stopping the rising popularity of cryptocurrency.

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The Holidays are Coming Which Means Holiday Phishing Emails are Coming too

by Brad | Nov 7, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

It’s that time of the year. Time for a special brand of phishing emails: holiday-themed emails.

Who doesn’t like receiving a discount code from their favourite retailer in an email promotion around the holidays? Or, a holiday e-card from a co-worker? Or, a shipping notification from UPS saying that a package is on the way? Everyone loves getting these types of emails around the holidays and hackers know it. Which is why they use these types of emails to phish you. And by all accounts, they’re planning on doing it even more this holiday season. So, you better be ready.

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Understanding Business Identity Theft & What Makes Businesses Vulnerable To These Identity Thefts

by Brad | Nov 3, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

Those days are long gone when thieves only targeted stealing physical assets such as physical money or expensive items. Today is the time of “cyber thieves” who know stealing confidential information of business entities, and impersonating them has far higher benefits.

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What Made Microsoft The Most Impersonated Brand And How Phishers Leverage Similar Bigger Brands?

by Brad | Oct 27, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused havoc not only in our real world but also in the virtual one. On the brighter side of things, it has encouraged a new work culture – working from home. This development has given a tremendous boost to Microsoft, with millions of employees working from home using one Microsoft product or the other.

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Beware Of Phishing Scams – You Could End Up Compromising Your Vital Data

by Brad | Oct 21, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

Every day, we see phishing scams happening around us. We read in the newspapers and on the internet that people have lost their hard-earned money to cybercriminals. What are these phishing scams, and how do they play out? What is the general modus operandi of these hackers? How do we identify a phishing scam email? What precautions can we take to ensure that we do not become victims of such scams? All these questions require answering. Let us discuss phishing scams in detail.

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If You’re Retired, be Wary of This Scam

by Brad | Jan 15, 2020 | Phishing Awareness

If you’re a retired U.S. citizen, there’s a pretty good chance you collect monthly Social Security benefits. And if you do, there’s something you should know. Hackers are coming after your money.

From an article on the AARP website, “Crooks are turning to email as a way to steal Social Security benefits, often including official-looking attachments to make them seem legit, a new warning from the government says.”

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In Honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Here’s the Only Fact You Need to Know

by Brad | Oct 21, 2019 | Phishing Awareness

Two ways to penetrate a network

Cybersecurity is about keeping the bad guys out of your network. Whether it’s your home network or the one at work, once the bad guys get in, they can wreak all kinds of havoc. The good news, if you can call it that, is there’s really only two ways to penetrate any network: exploit equipment or exploit people. If you can stop both of these, you can keep your network safe.

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Stop! Don’t Watch That Video

by Brad | Sep 25, 2019 | Phishing Awareness

If one of your Facebook friends sent you an email that said “Is this you?” with a link to a video, would you click on it to see if it’s you? If so, there’s a good chance you’re going to get phished, because you just fell for the newest Facebook phishing scam.

According to the Better Business Bureau, “There’s a phishing scam making the rounds. If you’re a victim, you receive a message from someone you know and trust, one of your friends and family members. The message expresses they were surprised to have seen you in a video and contains a web address that’s supposed to lead you to it. You’re not in the video.” The twist here is the bad guys are using Facebook Messenger to deliver their payload.

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The Real Purpose to Phishing Awareness Training: Paranoia

by Brad | Sep 20, 2019 | Phishing Awareness

It’s big business today. Training employees to defend themselves (and their organization) from phishing emails. And there’s a good reason for that. Phishing is big business.

It’s estimated that the average cost of a spear phishing attack is $1.6 million. So, no matter what a company spends to train its employees, if it keeps them from getting phished, it’s probably a good investment.

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