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Spear Phishing: Targeted Attacks with Higher Success Rates
by David Bienkiewicz on August 8, 2019 at 1:48 PM
Spear phishing is a deadly form of targeted social engineering. The main difference between spear phishing and traditional phishing is that spear phishing targets a certain user or users by using important facets of their life against them, while traditional phishing targets a broad g …
Vishing – A Closer Look
by Ethan Ray on June 5, 2019 at 1:00 PM
Vishing, a shortened name for voice phishing, is the act of using a telephone to trick an individual into surrendering useful information to a fraudulent caller. Vishing is a form of social engineering, and as in most social engineering attempts, the attacker will create a false ident …
Trends and Tactics in Phishing
by David Bienkiewicz on May 1, 2019 at 1:00 PM
When I’m tasked with creating phishing emails for clients, I begin by looking up what the recent phishing trends are in the real world, or the top 10 most reported phishing attacks for the month / year. I often end up finding scams about winning the latest iPhone from a phone service …
Tax Scam Phishing Examples
by Geoff Yeagley on March 14, 2018 at 11:21 AM
Tax season is upon us once again. Just like every other tax year, this also marks the beginning of the annual tax season scams that bad actors use to try and steal your information or steal your money. One of the more common scams they run is they attempt to impersonate the IRS and sc …
How To Prevent Phishing? More Like How To Train Your (Dragon) End-User
by Ron Scarborough on February 12, 2018 at 9:25 AM
The most dangerous threat to your company’s information isn’t as the movies would lead you to believe. The hacker in a warehouse surrounded with monitors, expounding upon government conspiracies isn’t knocking at your door. The biggest threat is in your building right now and is about …
Beware of Hurricane Harvey Phishing Scams
by Geoff Yeagley on August 31, 2017 at 12:16 PM
It is a shame that in the wake of a significant disaster we need to discuss the need for people to be alert of scammers and cyber criminals who are trying to use a tragedy to make money. But here we are and while the people of the great state of Texas deal with a tragedy, the good peo …