Look out! Just when you thought you knew what to click on in your emails, another threat emerges. Based on our awareness campaigns, users now know to “look for the padlock” in the browser bar, and to “hover over a link” before clicking on it in an email. Those suggestions do help to some extent, but now the bad guys have introduced even more insidious approaches.
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Phishing Scams Are Growing Up: New Email Attacks Surface
Look out! Just when you thought you knew what to click on in your emails, another threat emerges. Based on our awareness campaigns, users now know to “look for the padlock” in the browser bar, and to “hover over a link” before clicking on it in an email. Those suggestions do help to some extent, but now the bad guys have introduced even more insidious approaches.
Read more9 Online Security Risks to Avoid and 9 Best Practices for Secure Computing
Today, there are teams of individuals, both state and privately sponsored, whose sole purpose is to break into corporate or government networks to either steal sensitive data, or deploy malware that will bring those networks to their knees.
Read moreThe Click That Changed Emily’s Business
As you may recall from Part I of this series, Emily is the sole owner of a small business. Like many computer users, she has heard a little about the need to keep information secure—especially customer information—so she uses a free antivirus software program. But, there’s more to protecting data than that.
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