You are going through your email, when suddenly forty new messages flood into your Inbox. These emails are all addressed to you, and they are coming by the dozens, and then hundreds, then even thousands. The emails are in a variety of different languages. They keep coming all day, and then the next day as well. Marking them as junk mail ...
Phishing Email AlertsExamples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from reliable sources on the Internet.
Emails and text message about COVID-19 infections or information need to be treated with the utmost suspicion. Do not click through the links, or with emails, open any attachments.
There has been a lot in the press about ransomware this year. Crypto-ransomware attacks are becoming more targeted and sophisticated, resulting in bigger extortion amounts and other financial losses to the victims.
But last year’s most frequent and expensive cyber-crime is still email account compromise, or what the FBI calls Business Email Compromise (BEC) is still with us. The attackers using this exploit have also become more ...
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Your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is one of the top targets of cyber-criminals. This information is valuable because it can be used for identity, fraud, tax refund fraud, loans and credit card applications, money transfers, phishing and spam campaigns, blackmail and extortion, fraudulent medical insurance claims, online shopping, and so much more. This information is packaged and sold on the Dark Web, ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: October 4, 2019
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has released a blog post describing an increase in malicious cyber activity from the Iranian group known as Phosphorus. These threat actors are exploiting password reset or account recovery features to take control of targeted email accounts.
In a ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Modern credit card skimmers hidden in self-service gas pumps communicate via Bluetooth. There’s now an app that can detect them:
The team from the University of California San Diego, who worked with other computer scientists from the University of Illinois, developed an app called Bluetana ...
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Phishing is getting better and harder to detect. One new trend is using hijacked business email accounts to pivot further into a business, by using the built in trust of the company’s email domain to send phishing emails that appear to come from coworkers. These phishing emails from trusted sources are used to hijack other email accounts in the same company. This ...
Have you recently migrated to Microsoft Office 365 for your company email services? US-CERT and CISA recently released Analysis Report (AR19-133A) Microsoft Office 365 Security Observations that described several security flaws or weaknesses inherent in the default deployment of O365.
Here are the findings of that report. The good news is that these are shortcomings with the default, out-of-box experience. These issues can be corrected through configuration. ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Sounds like the crooks who tried to sell more than 600 million records last week are back with nearly 100 million more…
A woman is being sued for sending approx. 250K of her employer’s cash to an ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.From the Electric Frontier Foundation (EFF). Do you like what has happened to your cable and Internet service? In December 2017, the FCC voted to roll back the 2015 Open Internet Order, giving Internet service providers (ISPs) free reign to engage in unfair and discriminatory data practices. That ...
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