Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes when sending phishing simulations to our clients, we setup a reply-to address to see if people will reply to suspicious emails and many do.
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One way to verify if an email is legitimate is to look at the sender’s address, the actual sender’s address, not just the sender’s name. One tactic cyber criminals employ is using the sender’s name to trick the recipients.
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You have carefully selected a training program. Employees are completing the courses. And yet, they are not reporting suspicious emails and their passwords are made up of favorite sports teams and graduation dates. What is missing?
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Living in the city, we learn to tread cautiously in dodgy neighborhoods, ask hard questions of fast-talking salesmen and look both ways before crossing the street. But we increasingly live online. Most of humanity is just now trying to figure out what … Continue reading Cyber Security Awareness Month: Checklist for a Cyberaware Life
In honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM), Dane Boyd, PhishLabs’ Security Training Manager, and I will share a series of posts covering topics from cybersecurity to organizational learning and development. We are kicking off … Continue reading Training Not Sinking In? Try a Programmatic Approach
https://info.phishlabs.com/what_is_the_cost_of_a_phishing_attack_phishing_susceptibility_modelEach year in the month of October there are more things to be cognizant of than ghosts and ghouls, in fact something far scarier. That’s right, Cyb… Continue reading 15 Years of Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Have the well-meaning recommendations of the security community made web users more vulnerable to cyber attacks? Have we conditioned people to be phished?
You know that little green padlock symbol that appears in your browser’s URL bar every now and then? What do you think it means?
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In observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Bitdefender delivers a series of articles on hot topics such as best practices in online safety and protecting your company’s assets and integrity. We also provide prerequisites to consider before seeking a career in cybersecurity. We encourage you to bookmark this blog or connect with Bitdefender on LinkedIn or Twitter to receive follow-on articles (filled with security tips) as they are published.
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In observance of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Bitdefender offers a series of articles on hot topics such as best practices in online safety and protecting your company’s assets and integrity. We also suggest prerequisites to consider before seeking a career in cybersecurity. We encourage you to bookmark this blog or connect with Bitdefender on LinkedIn or Twitter to receive follow-on articles (filled with security tips) as they are published.
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When people think about phishing, their mind often turns immediately to ransomware. And for good reason. After all, there have been dozens of high profile ransomware attacks in recent months.
But you know what? An even greater proportion of phishing lures don’t contain ransomware. Instead of extorting money from you, they have an ulterior motive: they’re designed to steal your identity.
Well, OK. They’re designed to steal your login credentials… but in reality that isn’t far short of stealing your identity.
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