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Tag Archives: phishing
Infographic/Pictogram on Spearphishing
I got this from the RSA website. It illustrates the anatomy of an attack.
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Tagged phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, spear phishing, spearphishing
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Smart Farming Vulnerabilities
Smart farming is a real thing, it enables farmers to monitor their crops and gather visual analytics on big data. This allows for farmers to anticipate crop availability and forecast pricing. This data is very valuable to the farmers and costly … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, back to basics, cryptolocker, FBI, ICS, phishing, ransomware, Security Awareness, smart farming
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Phishing Outlook Looks Legitimate
When an attacker is using Microsoft Office 365’s Outlook paired with Microsoft Lync, it makes phishing emails look authentic and harder to detect without really checking it out. See graphic below.
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Tagged 2016, FBI, phishing, security, Security Awareness, spearphishing
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MedStar Health
It’s assumed that MedStar Health is a victim of crypto-ransomware as MedStar forced a shutdown of their email and records database yesterday in order to stop the spread of the malware from encrypting more systems. Most operations went back to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, cryptography, encryption, fraud, phishing, ransomware
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IRS and Seagate?
The Internal Revenue Service issued an alert on March 1st, 2016, to payroll and human resources professionals to be aware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to be from company executives and requests personal information on employees. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Brian Krebs, fraud, IRS, phishing, Security Awareness, tax, tax refund, w2s
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This Guy Asks Hackers to Ruin His Life!
An eye-opening video about the capability of hack attacks, from social engineering to complete digital-life and real life takeover. Not only is the journalist asking people to do it, experts blatantly show how they do it. Please take the time … Continue reading
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Tagged car hacking, Internet of Things, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, video tutorial, vishing
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Hackers Hold Hospital Healthcare Data Hostage
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s data systems have been infected with encrypted ransomware. The hospital says patient care has not been compromised, though the cyber-attack has forced them to revert to paper registrations and medical records and send patients seeking emergency … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, computer security, cybercrime, FBI, Healthcare, phishing, ransomware, social engineering, spearphishing
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It’s Tax Season ∴ CyberThieves Are Working Full Time!
With most things going electronic, it’s beneficial to be aware of some of the tricks a con-artist would use to get your W-2 and try to claim your tax refund before you have the chance to. One popular method is … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, cybercrime, fraud, infographic, phishing, privacy, social engineering, spearphishing, tax refund
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Remember the Fappening?
Some time ago, back in 2014, I wrote about the Fappening, when someone hacked a bunch of Apple cloud accounts and stole personal pictures of famous celebrities. Turns out that some of the victims to this hack was due to … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, fappening, FBI, iBrute, iCloud, phishing, spear phishing, spearphishing
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Social Engineering Fraud Losses Doubled in 2015
Consider the largest breaches of 2015 and realize they weren’t about getting financial data directly. It was all about personal details. Identity theft is a hotter commodity on the dark web, than credit card numbers. Anthem 80 million (Personal Details) Ashley … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, 2016, cybercrime, fraud, hackers, hacking, Identity Theft, personal details, phishing, PII, Security Awareness, smishing, sniffing, social engineering, spearphishing, vishing
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