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Tag Archives: phishing
Phishing Anthem
Since my original posting about the Anthem Health Insurance Breach… Investigators believe the cyber crooks compromised the logins from 5 different tech workers, possibly through a phishing scheme that could have tricked them into unknowingly revealing a password or downloading … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Anthem, breach, Identity Theft, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering
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Intuit’s Turbo Tax
Was shut down to investigate if there was a breach as many had logged in to find that their refunds were already claimed. It was found that no breach occurred. According to Brian Krebs, both Turbo Tax and H&RBlock credentials … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Brian Krebs, credentials, phishing, Security Awareness, tax refund
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From Russia with Love Letters
A Russian team allegedly breached the Sony entertainment company’s network by sending spear phishing emails containing a remote access Trojan (RAT) to Sony employees in India, Russia and other Asian countries. Once they had access to the computers of these … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hackers, phishing, remote access trojan, russian, Security Awareness, sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Spear Phishing
Cyber thieves stole nearly $215 million from businesses in the last 14 months using email scams. Once a high level exec has his or her email compromised, the bad guys lurk, learn the schedules, learn the business, learn the business … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Brian Krebs, cybercrime, email, hackers, phishing, Security Awareness, spoof
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LinkedIn Phishing
There has been a lot of phishing emails claiming to be from LinkedIn Support, designed to fool recipients into giving up their login credentials. The email uses a lowercase I instead of a capital i when spelling ‘Linkedln’ I promote … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 factor, 2015, linkedin, passwords, phishing, social engineering, two-factor
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Non-Oracle sites offering Oracle ‘Fixes’/Malware
Oracle put out a press release, it reads: Warning It has come to our attention that there are non-Oracle sites offering Oracle ‘fixes’ for genuine Oracle error messages. You probably already don’t need to be told, however: Please do not … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, malware, Oracle, phishing, SEO, social eing
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Stuart Varney, Fox Host, Gets Demo-Hacked By John McAfee
This was in the news yesterday, it is proof that social engineering is the master key to unlock many locks. It is also proof that to keep your lock secured, security awareness and training is needed with the end goal … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Fox News, Information Technology Security Awareness, John McAfee, passwords, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, sony, spoof, spoofing, Stuart Varney
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An Intro To Recon-ng Pushpin
Recon-ng is a full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python. Complete with independent modules, database interaction, built in convenience functions, interactive help, and command completion, Recon-ng provides a powerful environment in which open source web-based reconnaissance can be conducted quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, phishing, recon-ng, Reconnaissance, social engineering, video tutorial
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Anunak, Russian/Ukraine Bank Hackers
An ATM gang has stolen more than $15 million from Eastern European banks, To gain a foothold inside financial institutions, the “Anunak group” — sent bank employees targeted, malware-laced emails made to look like the missives were sent by Russian … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, ATM, banks, Brian Krebs, Group iB, hackers, malware, passwords, phishing
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ICANN Targeted in Spear Phishing Attack
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have announced that their system were compromised by a phishing attack. Some of the staff of ICANN fell victim to a spear phishing attack. From their website: ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, hacked, ICANN, Information Technology Security Awareness, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, passwords, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing
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