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