The bad news for Evaldas Rimasauskas of Lithuania is he’s facing up to 30 years in prison for scamming Facebook and Google out of $122 million. The good news is that he only has to pay restitution of about $50million. It’s not clear what’s happened to the other $73m, according to an article on BoingBoing.
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