Phishing Archive
The Black Friday weekend is a chaotic time for shoppers as they hunt down deals in-store and online. Consumers are set to spend in record numbers this holiday season, with one study predicting that sales could hit $207 billion in …
What is smishing? Smishing is one of the fastest-growing cyber threats, with as many as 84% of organizations encountering an attack last year, according to a Proofpoint study. The attacks – which are a specific type of phishing conducted over …
In addition to health issues, UConn Health patients are now fretting over their PII (personally identifiable information) being compromised. On December 24, 2018, UConn Health discovered that an unauthorized party had accessed nearly 1,500 employee email accounts. Breach at UConn …
According to the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, “There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” What Kierkegaard is telling us is something about which …
For many, weekends mean lounging around with a cup of coffee and the newspaper. However, on December 29, 2018, readers of the Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, and Wall Street Journal: Weekend …
According to the Trump administration, Healthcare.gov, the portal for the Affordable Care Act, has been hacked, compromising 75,000 consumer files. This represents only a small number of the nearly 12 million people enrolled in Obamacare but try telling that to …
A phishing scam cost Texas’ Henderson Independent School District (HISD) more than $600,000. On September 26, 2018, the HISD sent an electronic payment to pay for construction work. However, the payment never went to the construction company. The school district …
Mimecast’s Email Security Risk Assessment report has revealed that BEC (business email compromise) attacks have increased by 80% in the past quarter. BEC scams target organizations to try to compromise the email account of a victim and get personal data, …
The personal information of 417,000 patients at Augusta University Health was compromised after 24 employees fell victim to a phishing attack in September 2017. Upon discovery, Augusta University disabled the affected email accounts, requested password resets, and increased system monitoring …
A Mimecast survey has found that more than 50% of organizations say phishing attacks have increased over the past year. Respondents to Mimecast’s second annual State of Email Security report also highlight a rise in impersonation attacks, a specific kind of phishing in which a …
