User Awareness Program

Beware “Tabnapping” – A New Kind Of Phishing Scam

According to an article posted on The Register, a leading developer of Firefox has warned of a sneaky potential new form of phishing attack. Aza Raskin, the creative lead for Firefox, explains that the approach exploits the fact that most surfers keep many tabs open during ...

New Threat For Wireless Networks: Typhoid Adware

According to an article on Dark Reading, there’s a potential threat lurking in your Internet cafe, say University of Calgary computer science researchers: Typhoid adware. Typhoid adware works in similar fashion to Typhoid Mary, the first identified healthy carrier of...

Another Ponzi Case – And a Warning for Investors

He was living the high life—taking up residence in a Miami Beach mansion worth more than $5 million, cruising around in a million-dollar yacht and his leased Mercedes-Benz, shelling out more than $400,000 for floor seats at Miami Heat basketball games, and donating thousands...

Your Mail

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Email Attack Targets HR Departments

Here’s a very good reason to send periodic information security reminders to your employees – in particular: Do not open e-mail attachments from anyone you do not know! A targeted attack aimed at human resources departments and hiring managers in the U.S. and E...

I think “three.”

Whenever I want to simplify what I have to do to protect the bank from scammers, I think three.  Three Simple Words start Three Little Steps in a procedure that will protect all of three of us! We do not have to be rude when we “authenticate” users.  And users need to be aut...

Visa Warns of Fraud Attack from Criminal Group

Visa is warning financial institutions that it has received reliable intelligence that an organized criminal group plans to attempt to move large amounts of fraudulent payments through a merchant account in Eastern Europe, possibly as soon as this weekend, according to an ar...

Did you lose your keys?

Note:  The following is a “Vigilize Post.”  If you want regular fodder for your security awareness reminders, along with catchy subject lines if you intend to use e-mail, consider following us on www.twitter.com/vigilize!  Each week we tweet a post that you are w...

Treasury Department Web Sites Redirect Visitors to Malicious Sites

According to a post on The Register, several US Treasury Department web sites are redirecting visitors to other sites that try to install malware on their computers. The attack uses an embedded iframe in three Treasury web sites that invokes scripts from another site. The ma...

E-mail Claiming to Be From the FDIC

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has received numerous reports of a fraudulent e-mail that has the appearance of being sent from the FDIC. The subject line of the e-mails state: “Just for your time.” The e-mail tells recipients that, “The Fe...