One of my clients was the victim of a cyber-crime, and I reported it to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Today I will discuss how the process worked.
My client called me to help her after someone posing as her intercepted a payment on an invoice that she sent to one of her customers. The way this worked is that some time in the past, her business email account had been ...
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You might have heard that the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, recently had his Twitter account hijacked. You are probably wondering how a tech-savvy founder of a technology company could possibly lose control of his account at his own company. Personally, I can’t think of anything more embarrassing. It turns out the culprit was his phone. Specifically, the SMS texts that ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Under the overarching theme of ‘Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT.’, the 16th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) ...
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Is your company moving operations to the cloud? What about the cybersecurity aspects of protecting your data assets in the cloud? Are you relying on your partner/vendor to take care of securing your information? In light of the Paige Thompson indictment, it is apparent that relying too heavily on your vendor’s expertise and staff can open you ...
There is a very realistic spoofed phishing email making the rounds that looks so close the the real Microsoft alert email, as to be almost undetectable. They even spoof the legitimate sender address of “account-security-noreply@accountprotection.microsoft.com”. So even if you are looking for signs of chicanery, it will be difficult for most users to tell it is fake. See an example below.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Timepieces were once the exclusive preserve of the wealthy, but transcontinental railroads, Mark Twain, and the Ingersoll brothers made timekeeping affordable for everyone with the One Dollar Watch. Now just one more thing the smartphone killed off. From the Smithsonian.
