An apparent ransomware infection at Barnes & Noble, which spread from the retailer’s corporate systems to its stores, has led to speculation over whether a lack of business segmentation could have assisted the malware’s propagation.
Devised by email security company GreatHorn and security awareness firm Inspired eLearning, a new quiz taken by 1,123 U.S. users showed how individuals actually respond to phishing scams. The results weren’t great.
Researchers have recently warned of two massive phishing operations, collectively targeting hundreds of thousands of users – one seeking credentials for business services such as Office 365 and the other abusing Facebook Messenger to go after roughly 450,000 of the social media giant’s account holders.
Skepticism about COVID-19 communications exemplifies a hidden cost of the fight against phishing and vishing scams: lost time and business inefficiencies caused by paranoid employees.
Businesses should remind their employees to resist interacting with emails sent from unknown sources, especially when their subject lines and content promise inside information on current events.
Video games, quiz show competitions and undercover “mole” operations are among the more inventive ways companies are trying to spice up security awareness efforts.
Many businesses treat information about their own employees differently than that of customers, which could place them squarely in violation of privacy regulations.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday launched a free “Telework Essentials Toolkit” designed to help businesses to adjust to the realities of working from home during the COVID pandemic. DHS teamed up with the Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI), Global Cyber Alliance and other partners to add these resources to the agency’s dedicated…
Cyberattackers targeting the hospitality industry were recently observed using a phishing page that featured CAPTCHA technology as a way to elude detection, as well as to give potential victims a false sense of security that the malicious site was legit. The scam was revealed yesterday in a blog post from Menlo Security – the latest in a…
Organizations during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and global recession may find themselves relying more on external assistance from the greater hacking community as a way to augment their internal efforts to mitigate vulnerability risk.
