🔰Part 2: Email🔰
Seems like email used to be so innocent; it was the way you shared funny pictures, images, cat videos. But now email is one of the main catalysts by which hackers launch attacks against unsuspecting users. It doesn’t matter if you’re a VIP, bank executive, hedge fund manager…Everyone is at risk including small and medium-sized businesses. Hackers usually don’t go after the harder targets that use industry standard security and follow best practices. They go after regular people that may not be able to afford to hire an INFOSEC or cybersecurity professional to protect their networks.
No longer will the emails come with obvious misspellings, poor grammar, and outlandish requests. Now, the spam email of 2018 is well crafted, looks legitimate, and may very well appear to come from someone you know. Attackers can craft emails that look exactly like they come from your bank, employer, and even credit monitoring agencies. Bottom line, don’t click on links sent to you in an email, copy and paste them into a web browser. Don’t open attachments from people you don’t know, or even maybe people that you do know and are claiming they are trying to be helpful. They may even use threatening tactics and say something like law enforcement is going to issue a warrant for your arrest if you don’t respond. The IRS and US Government will never contact you and threaten you via email with warrants or imprisonment, they will just garnish your wages and tax returns direclty. You should be aware of whether your email address has been compromised using sites like haveibeenpwned.com and other data breach sites.
➖ @DarkDenial ➖
Seems like email used to be so innocent; it was the way you shared funny pictures, images, cat videos. But now email is one of the main catalysts by which hackers launch attacks against unsuspecting users. It doesn’t matter if you’re a VIP, bank executive, hedge fund manager…Everyone is at risk including small and medium-sized businesses. Hackers usually don’t go after the harder targets that use industry standard security and follow best practices. They go after regular people that may not be able to afford to hire an INFOSEC or cybersecurity professional to protect their networks.
No longer will the emails come with obvious misspellings, poor grammar, and outlandish requests. Now, the spam email of 2018 is well crafted, looks legitimate, and may very well appear to come from someone you know. Attackers can craft emails that look exactly like they come from your bank, employer, and even credit monitoring agencies. Bottom line, don’t click on links sent to you in an email, copy and paste them into a web browser. Don’t open attachments from people you don’t know, or even maybe people that you do know and are claiming they are trying to be helpful. They may even use threatening tactics and say something like law enforcement is going to issue a warrant for your arrest if you don’t respond. The IRS and US Government will never contact you and threaten you via email with warrants or imprisonment, they will just garnish your wages and tax returns direclty. You should be aware of whether your email address has been compromised using sites like haveibeenpwned.com and other data breach sites.
➖ @DarkDenial ➖