Get Your Free Email Exposure Check Pro Find out which of your users emails are exposed before the bad guys do. Have Your Users Made You an Easy Target for Spear Phishing? Many of the email addresses and identities of your organization are exposed on the internet and easy to find for cybercriminals. With that email attack surface, they can launch social engineering, spear phishing and ransomware attacks...
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Find out what percentage of your employees are Phish-prone Did you know that 91% of successful data breaches started with a spear phishing attack? Find out what percentage of your employees are Phish-prone™ with your free phishing security test. Plus, see how you stack up against your peers with the new phishing Industry Benchmarks! IT pros have realized that simulated phishing tests are urgently needed as an additional security layer....
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Phishers have found a way of moving the malicious URLs in their emails past Office 365's protections. The security company Avanan says they've observed criminals using a <base> tag in the HTML header used with the URL. The hack works because newer email clients are equipped to handle the <base> tag, and they render the split URL as a link. Office 365's Advanced Threat Protection includes...
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Earlier this year, Spiceworks posted a story about the city of Atlanta spending $2.7M to clean up after a devastating SamSam ransomware attack in March that crippled city networks for weeks. At the time, we knew that affected services included online bill payments and the municipal court system. In a June 6 Atlanta budget meeting, more details about the ransomware incident came to light. It turns out that...
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A new report on malware says that the majority of companies globally have been victims of ransomware in the last 12 months. 52% Have Lost Faith in Antivirus and 44% Agree AV Is Dead A new report says that ransomware attacks are the new normal for IT. There are a lot of numbers to chew on in the report, but the sheer enormity of the problem may...
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This is a wonderful article that appeared in CyberHeistNews but one of our clients recently fell victim to this Phishing attack. "Over the past few months, we have been hit with increasing frequency with an attack that follows this 5-step pattern; A known vendor or customer falls victim to a phishing attack. Their email credentials are compromised, and the “bad guy” gets access to their email...
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Apple iOS 11.1 was hacked just one day after its release which surprised the security world, considering Apple’s reputation in the past. During a contest in Tokyo conducted by Trend Micro, named as “Pwn2Own”, researchers successfully exploited two critical vulnerabilities in iOS 11.1. Read More and watch the video in the article. Contact AOR-Information Technology Services and ask us how Cisco Umbrella can protect one computer or an entire network. Contact...
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KnowBe4 created a wonderful Safe Holiday Shopping video to help you avoid cyber scammers during the holiday shopping season. These are great tips to help you keep more of your money in your pockets! ...
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The U.S. government issued a rare public warning that sophisticated hackers are targeting energy and industrial firms, the latest sign that cyber attacks present an increasing threat to the power industry and other public infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation warned in a report distributed by email late on Friday that the nuclear, energy, aviation, water, and critical manufacturing industries have...
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