phishing

Common Ways For Countering Privileged Identity Theft Attacks

Work efficiency cannot be improved without an internal/external network environment these days; successful organizations are all data-driven entities. However, while the Internet comes with convenience, there is a risk of leaking personal information. There are various causes of identity theft, but one is sophisticated of malware such as targeted attack emails. Targeted attack emails are

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Trust Issues In Believing Phishing, The Biggest Risk In Education Institutions

Fake invoices are easier to detect if these piggyback emails that came from people you don’t know. We are well aware of the messages from complete strangers may range from complete irrelevant to dangerous as it harbors malware, placing the victim into cybersecurity trouble. Even phishers and cybercriminals know that basic principle of safe computing,

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Youtube Now Takes Down “Instructional Hacking” Videos

For 19-years and still counting, Youtube has become a very important platform for online video content. Not only for leisure and pleasure, like those cat videos that we all love to watch, but also education-type of videos designed to inform people of whatever topic they wish to learn. In fact, as of this year, there

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BEC Scams, A Profitable Phishing Technique

Only a few groups in the cybersecurity industry know or even heard the name “Scattered Canary”, it is considered as a “cyber-gang” with at least a dozen members set to issue targeted BEC (Business Email Compromise) campaigns. Scattered Canary started its operations more than ten years ago, with only a few members, the team targeted

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5 Ways In Handling Security Trends of First Quarter 2019

2019’s First Quarter already ended, and as we can see cybersecurity issues are not bound to slow down any time soon. We have provided many embarrassing and sad stories of companies and public sector entities falling for cyber attacks, phishing, malware infection and other issues. We are here to help make our readers aware of

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Phone Call-Based Spear Phishing: Bank of America Alerted

The Better Business Bureau has warned banks, especially Bank of America and their depositors/creditors to be alert of a new phishing attack using a newer social engineering technique. Some victims of the new phishing attack suddenly realized that their bank accounts were totally wiped-out of funds, even without remembering if she gave her banking information

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Chinese Scammers Use Social Engineering to Swindle $18.6M

Fraud transaction through clever social engineering enabled Chinese phishers in successfully swindling an estimated $18.6 million from Tecnimont SpA’s Indian branch. With a cleverly written email that heavily resembles Pierrorberto Folgiero’s (the company’s Group CEO) was sent to Tecnimont Pvt Ltd, the phishers were able to persuade decision makers in the company’s India office to

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4 Tasks System Admins Should Never Forget During Holiday Downtime

Holiday season is a period where system admins perform fine tuning of the systems and network. With employees taking their vacation, it is the best time to perform scheduled downtime in order to keep the computers working in their top shape as the New Year comes. Here, we have provided you another full year of

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Hack Email Passwords in Minutes Using Dubious Ways

It is a well-known fact that our oceans are over fished. As if that is not enough, so too are our inboxes. While a different kind of “phishing”, email hacking and scams are increasing with every turn of the tide, most of us count on our email provider to include a level of spam filtering

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