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Phishing
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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Phishing Continues to Be Seen as Biggest Cybersecurity Threat to Companies
According to a recent survey of cybersecurity professionals by AT&T Cybersecurity entitled “Confidence: the perception and reality of cybersecurity threats,” phishing and cloud security threats are keeping them up at…
Legal Loudspeaker Blog
5 Ways To Recognize A Phishing Email
Over 90% of targeted cyber attacks come through email. End-user training is a major factor in the way a business can combat these attacks. Here are 5 ways you can…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
WIPRO Hacked
I have been alerting clients that I know use Wipro, but may have missed some of you. It is being reported that IT outsourcing company Wipro Ltd. has been hacked…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #185 – Scammers Are Getting Bolder and More Insistent
I try to keep my spam filter on the most restrictive setting, which has dramatically decreased the amount of spam I receive in my email box every day. But every…
Data Counsel
Deeper Dive: The Scourge of O365 Incidents
By David Kitchen, M. Scott Koller, BakerHostetler
A Growing Menace 2018 saw a continuation of companies moving toward cloud-based email systems. Phishing incidents targeting those systems followed suit. Fully one-third of incidents addressed by our incident response…
Legal Loudspeaker Blog
Phishing Scam Costs Facebook And Google $100 Million
Lithuanian Man Pleads Guilty to Scamming $100 Million From Facebook & Google Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to scamming Facebook & Google out of $100 million. How did he do it?…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Spear Phishing Scheme Dupes Nine Staff Members at Oregon DHS Compromising PHI of 350,000 in Over 2M Emails
The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) announced late last week that nine of its staff members had fallen victim to a phishing campaign and that their email boxes were…
Your IT Consultant
Twelve Most Common Phishing Email Subject Lines
By John Simek
The bad guys are constantly looking at ways to get users to click on links or open attachments in an attempt to install malware or otherwise compromise personal information. Barracuda…
2Civility Blog
How to Identify and Avoid Phishing Scams
Do junk and spam emails overflow your inbox? What about those emails that appear to be from a friend or colleague, but you’re not quite sure? Or an unsolicited business…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #181- IRS Warns Consumers and Employers About Tax-Related Phishing Schemes
In another round of warnings from the federal government on protecting yourself from tax return fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued its 2019 “Dirty Dozen”…