When it comes to phishing attacks, you probably don’t give it a second thought when someone else gets phished. But maybe you should. According to a new article on the Help Net Security website, “Cybersecurity threats are a rising problem in society, especially for healthcare organizations. Successful attacks can jeopardize not only patient data, but
If you get hit with a phishing attack today, most likely it will be your mobile device. That’s because mobile is where hackers are spending their creative energy. According to an article on Hacker News this week, a new phishing attack was uncovered that is “based on the idea that a malicious web page could
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You can tell hackers are clever when they start to use the things you trust the most to exploit you. If you spend any time on the internet then surely you have encountered reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA, a system designed to establish that a computer user is human, was developed by engineers as Carnegie Mellon University and
In our phishing prevention best practices eBook, we provide ten best practices for small and mid-size businesses. We know these practices work. We know they’re right on point today. We want small and mid-size business to get and use this information. And once again we’ve been vindicated. Internet security company Webroot came out with their 2019
For most people, phishing scams are not high on the list of potential sources of comedy, although there are plenty of examples of blundering scammers and inept cybercriminals who got their due. When it comes to phishing awareness training for organizations, however, humor can be a powerful tool for maintaining compliance. Considering the alarming number of employees
Phishing attacks are hard to stop because hackers are extremely sophisticated and they use every method available. What hackers have discovered is that one of the best methods available is to target mobile devices. As challenging as it is for users to identify well-constructed phishing emails on a desktop, it’s much more difficult on mobile
2018’s Primary Breach Actors Were Malicious Outsiders According to a Whitepaper by security firm Tripwire, “2018’s primary breach actors were malicious outsiders. They were behind 56 percent of all breaches, followed by accidental loss at 34 percent, malicious insiders at 7 percent, hacktivists at 2 percent, and the remaining 1 percent falling into unknown.”
One of the easiest ways to get hacked is through a phishing email. Phishing emails contain either a malicious attachment or include an embedded link to a malicious website. Of course, many people are getting wise to phishing emails and aren’t so easily fooled. But what if you receive a phishing email from the last
If you’ve been trained to detect phishing emails, then you know it’s best not to click on links in an email. And if you do decide to click on a link, you’ve also been trained to hover your mouse over the link to check to see if the link is legitimate. But, what if the
Employees who have been trained to look out for phishing emails know not to click on links in suspicious emails. But what if the email tricks them into clicking on a link they didn’t intend to click on because it’s invisible? According to a presentation by the security education firm KnowBe4, one of the newest
So you tried your best to avoid a phishing attack but one day your laptop woke up with the flu bug. Criminals use phishing attacks to try to get at your personal information. You receive a legitimate-looking email with a link or attachment attached and you take the bait. After the initial shock wears off
Two factor authentication (2FA) is supposed to make logins more secure. Using 2FA requires two private pieces of information to login: your password and one other, typically a code received via text message. The challenge is the more secure the approach seemingly is, the less attention you pay while logging in. And therein lies the
Phishing is possibly the single most dangerous form of cyber attack facing individuals and corporations in today’s world because it exploits people rather than systems. At a very high level, phishing is any form of attack that trades on the trust of a person or corporation to reveal some information they wouldn’t normally reveal.
Office 365’s security features won’t protect users from all cyber security threats. Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 user base is growing at a steady rate. Since the office platform first outperformed Google Apps in 2015, it’s seen a constant uptick in activity. Now, Microsoft reports it counts its Office 365 users in the hundreds of millions. However,
Filtering and time-of-click protection can produce results where training fails. First, the facts: Employees who are unaware of the dangers of phishing are far more likely to become victims of phishing attempts than those who understand the process. The FBI estimates that organizations across the United States lose $1.2 billion every year due to email
Phishing attacks follow five key steps. Effective cybersecurity prevents them at each one. “I’d never fall for that.” “It’ll never happen to me.” “They’re not interested in companies like ours.” Almost every cybercrime victim has said words like these at one time or another. Anyone who believes that they, their company, or their colleagues are
Learn how to protect yourself by studying the biggest phishing scams in history If we draw an analogy between phishing and fishing, some scam artists are industrial-sized trawling operations that scrape the sea clean. Automated software and sophisticated tools make it possible for enterprising cybercriminals to scale their fraudulent emails in ways never imagined. Processes