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Throwback Thursday: Everybody gets an F

October 3, 2019 admin email, Security

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 03:00:00 -0700

As the IT communications manager at this university, pilot fish is the person who sends out memos about IT policy to users. And he does just that when a phishing email starts circulating on campus.

Never send your user name and password to anyone via email, he warns them, and to give them an example of what to look out for, he pastes in the text of the phishing attempt.

Within minutes, his inbox is flooded with responses from students sending him their campus passwords, their Gmail passwords, their Yahoo passwords and more.

Sharky is looking for fish, not phish. Send me your true tales of IT life at sharky@computerworld.com. You can also subscribe to the Daily Shark Newsletter.

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MalwareBytes Security

How to securely send your personal information

July 8, 2019 admin data at rest, data in transit, email, encryption, end-to-end encryption, personal information, PII, privacy, secure messaging, signal, WhatsApp, wire

Credit to Author: Seth Rosenblatt| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:00 +0000

On its own, email is not safe for sending credit card or passport numbers. Here’s how to securely send personal information over the Internet.

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Privacy

Tags: data at rest data in transit email encryption end-to-end encryption personal information PII secure messaging signal whatsapp wire

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QuickHeal Security

Beware! Email attachments can make you victim of spear phishing attacks

June 25, 2019 admin Cyber safety, email, malware, phishing, Security, Social engineering, spam

Credit to Author: Prashant Tilekar| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:15:28 +0000

In the last few months, we’ve seen a sudden increase in Spear Phishing attacks. Spear phishing is a variation of a phishing scam wherein hackers send a targeted email to an individual which appears to be from a trusted source. In this type of attack, the attacker uses social engineering tricks and some…

Kaspersky Security

Top 4 dangerous file attachments

May 31, 2019 admin email, malicious attachments, spam, Tips, winRAR

Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:00:26 +0000

We explain what file types cybercriminals most often use to hide malware, and how to avoid getting infected.

QuickHeal Security

5 ways to instantly detect a phishing email and save yourself from phishing attack

April 18, 2019 admin email, phishing

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:06:17 +0000

Phishing is a fraudulent activity to trick you into revealing your personal and confidential information. This information usually includes bank account details, net banking details, credit/debit card numbers, login ID and passwords. Every day, countless people become unsuspecting victims of phishing attacks. With cyber criminals adopting sophisticated modes of phishing…

MalwareBytes Security

Hackers snab emails and more in Microsoft Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN compromise

April 16, 2019 admin cybercrime, email, hacking, hotmail, live, microsoft, ms, msn, Outlook

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:30:20 +0000

Hackers made use of a compromised Microsoft support agent’s credentials to sneak a peek at its users’ Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook emails. How bad is it, and what has Microsoft done to correct it?

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Tags: email hotmail live microsoft ms msn Outlook

MalwareBytes Security

Zombie email rises from grave after eight years of radio silence

March 8, 2019 admin Account, cybercrime, email, email account, ISP, isps, passwords, privacy, talk talk, zombie email

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0000

What do you do when an email account you assumed was long gone comes back to life after eight years?

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Tags: account email email account ISP ISPs passwords talk talk zombie email

QuickHeal Security

GandCrab Riding Emotet’s Bus!

February 15, 2019 admin Bot, email, emotet, gandcrab, malware, ransomware, spam

Credit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:03:57 +0000

Emotet Known for constantly changing its payload and infection vectors like spam mail, Malicious Doc and even Malicious JS files. It compromised a very high number of websites on the internet. Emotet malware campaign has existed since 2014. It comes frequently in intervals with different techniques and variants to deliver malware…