A Scary Incident of a $21.5 Million Successful CEO Phishing Fraud

Phishing is a scam usually executed via email or text messaging. The perpetrator usually poses as someone you know and they induce you to send them money. The incident explained below could also be called spear phishing or whaling, in [...]

A Scary Incident of a $21.5 Million Successful CEO Phishing Fraud2019-12-13T12:14:52-08:00

Auto-fill Phishing Attack – This is scary. You better turn off your browser’s auto-fill feature.

There is interesting breaking news from web developer and hacker Viljami Kuosmanen as reported in The Guardian - Browser autofill used to steal personal details in new phishing attack.

 “The phising attack is brutally simple… when a user fills in information in some simple text boxes, such as name and email address, the autofill system, which is intended to avoid tedious repetition of standard information such as your address, will input other profile-based information into any other text boxes – even when those boxes are not visible on the page.

Disabling Autofill in Web Browsers

Google Chrome

1.       At the top right, click on the Settings icon (represented by three vertical dots)....

Auto-fill Phishing Attack – This is scary. You better turn off your browser’s auto-fill feature.2017-06-27T15:53:24-07:00

Ransomware and Phishing Awareness Training for your end-users

If you don’t treat network security as important, don’t expect your users to treat security as important. Irvine, CA - Ransomware and phishing threats are the most prevalent cyber-risk problem facing your organization today. Securing your system is a layered [...]

Ransomware and Phishing Awareness Training for your end-users2019-09-08T21:59:01-07:00