The War for Your Inbox

I recently gave a presentation titled “Email Security – Resist That Click” on May 23 2017 at the Phipps Theatre in Hudson WI.  This event was sponsored by First State Bank and Trust of Bayport MN.  I was also asked to present this topic at the MnCCC Conference (Minnesota Counties Computer Consortium) in Alexandria MN on Wednesday June 7, 2017.  This presentation was titled “The War for Tour Inbox.”

First State Bank and Trust had my presentation video recorded, and it ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, passwords, Phishing, ransomware, Security, training

New PowerPoint Exploit Launches on Hover

A new exploit that uses a PowerPoint feature that enables “mouse-over actions.”  This feature allows a PowerPoint slide show to initiate activity without having to actually click on a link.  Just hovering on a link is enough to advance to the next step.  Since we have been teaching people for years to reveal a link destination by hovering over a link to show the top tip box, this exploit would ...

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cybersecurity, malware, Phishing, Security, Trojan

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Go Big or Stay Home

It is my belief that if you are planning a crime, you might as well go for the glory.  The jail time is the same whether you steal $50,000 or $50 million.

I’m not sure if this is the biggest phishing scam ever, but it is the biggest I’ve heard of.  A Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasaukas devised a scheme that extracted over $100 million from Google and Facebook.  He achieved this ...

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cybersecurity, Phishing, social engineering

Report and Recover from Identity Theft with New FTC Service

Identity theft is a crime that can take years to recover from.  One of the early problems for an identity theft victim has been the requirement to file a police report.  Many police departments do not devote much effort to identity theft, so sometimes getting the police to actually create a report and provide you with a report number can difficult.  If ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, law and policy, passwords, Phishing, Security, social engineering

How Do You Know If Your Identity Was Stolen?

Identity theft can be devastating, and painfully hard to resolve.  It can have negative effects on your credit rating.  It could result in you being arrested for an open warrant on charges for a crime committed by the person who is using your identity.  Identity theft occurs in different ways.  Sometimes is is part of an online scam that may start with ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, Phishing, social engineering

The Google Docs Hoax: What Have We Learned?

It has been a couple of weeks since the Google Docs hoax spread across the Internet like wildfire.  What have we learned about this exploit?

Originally this appeared to be a phishing campaign, but phishing emails are spoofed clever replicas.  These emails were the genuine article, and were sent from Google mail servers, from the hijacked Google accounts of people you were likely to know.  This made the exploit difficult to ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, passwords, Phishing, Security, social engineering, Software vulnerability, Virus

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US-CERT Warns About Airline Phishing Scams

What if there was a new phishing scam that had an open rate of 90%.  That’s right, this phishing email is so believable, 90 out of 100 recipients open the the attachment or click on the link without a second thought.

These attacks begin with the scammer researching the target victim.  These targets usually work at companies where there is a lot of air ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, malware, passwords, Phishing, Spyware, surveillance, Trojan

New Exploit Uses Office Documents

A new exploit is using Microsoft Office documents to deliver malware.  This is different from the reanimated macro exploits.  If this exploit, the target will receive an Office document, such as a Word file, as an email attachment.  Opening the attachment causes a malicious HTML application to be downloaded from the attackers C2 server.  This is executed as an .hta file, disguised as an RTF file.  The result is the ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, malware, Phishing, Security, Software vulnerability

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