When I am training a room full of computer users about how to detect a phishing email, one of the detection methods is using the “hover trick” on a link to reveal the actual web address and destination. Or, if you have already clicked through, to look at the URL or web address as it is displayed in the address box of ...
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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Back in December we wrote about FBI Operation Hard Copy in order to warn our readers about telemarketing lottery scams and how they work. Recently, the FBI reported that one of the people arrested in that operation had plead guilty to one count of wire fraud.
According to the FBI:
Continue Reading →Ronald John Mendleski, 72, of Bokeelia, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud before U. S. Magistrate ...