Has it been another year already? Tomorrow is System Administrator Appreciation Day.
Gifts are always appreciated. Some easy do-ers. Mountain Dew, Doritos, Pie, Pizza.
Here are some cool ideas from my Pinterest feed.
On Monday we opened this discussion about hijacked email accounts, and showed some examples of the phishing tricks that attackers use to get you to reveal your email password. Today we will explore the many useful and profitable exploits that a compromised email account offers a cyber-criminal or other attacker.
I consider email account compromise to be one of the most personally harmful cyber-exploits. When another person has access to your email ...
Continue Reading →Let’s say I just hijacked your email account. What can I do with it?
First thing, a hijacker would not announce his or her presence in your account. Staying undetected is important so you do not change your password. Depending on what the attacker is doing with your email account, there is a significant probability that you would not know your account was compromised for several days, weeks, or even years!
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FBI Releases Article on Protecting Business Email Systems
05/31/2017 07:45 PM EDT
(***Watch for our 4 part series on Email Account Hijacking starting Monday***)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an article on Building a Digital Defense with an Email Fortress. FBI warns that scammers commonly target business email accounts with phishing and social engineering schemes. Strategies for preventing email compromises include avoiding the use of free web-based email accounts; using multi-factor ...
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Every now and again I client will ask an interesting question that sends me off on a bit of web research. Yesterday, a client I was working with wanted to know if there was a website that had a computer incident cost calculator. It seemed like there must be such a thing, and I found several good ones on Privacy ...
Here is a quick little survey to help you determine how likely you are to be the victim of a cyber-attack or cyber-criminal exploit. Give yourself a point for each “Yes” answer.
I am honored to be presenting at the 2017 ISSA International Conference, October 9-11 in San Diego, CA. This year’s theme is “Digital Danger Zone.” Please join me for networking, education, and fun.
I will be presenting “Shields Up for WordPress Web Sites and Blogs.” This presentation covers the threat of website hijacking, what an attacker wants to do with your website, ...
Continue Reading →No Roads! No Peace! Saw this on Pinterest, and since the season is upon us (not summer – road work season!) I thought I’d post this for your enjoyment.
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Verizon says data of 6 million customers leaked online
If you are a Verizon customer, you may want to consider updating your user information and account password.
About 6 million Verizon subscribers’ personal data was leaked online thanks to a security lapse from Nice Systems, an Israel-based company that partnered with Verizon to analyze customer service calls. The information stemmed from recorded customer service calls over the past six months.
The leaks included customer names, cell phone numbers and account PINs, which can ...
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