The concept of TMI – too much information – doesn’t just apply to socially awkward dinner conversations with your surprisingly loose-lipped blind date. Employees and executives are often oversharing personal details on social media and even in automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages. And under the wrong circumstances, an attacker could use some of these shared details to gain access to company networks.
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The threat of scam text messages may now seem distant, even quaint. With the new, exotic and sophisticated attacks that have arisen in the past decade, surely text message attacks are low on the list. But they can still be a big problem. Short message service (SMS) scams are social engineering attacks that work like email phishing attacks. Called ‘smishing’ (a mashup of SMS and phishing), the attacks aim to trick the victim into providing info or access that benefits the attacker.
The Office of the Washington State Auditor is investigating a security incident which has compromised the personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. State Auditor Pat McCarthy’s office blamed the breach on a third party software provider named Accellion, whose services are used to transmit computer files.
Threat actors are sending phishing emails impersonating a Small Business Administration (SBA) lender to prey on US business owners who want to apply for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan to keep their business going during the COVID-19 crisis.
Microsoft has announced that Application Guard for Office is now generally available for all Microsoft 365 users with supported licenses. Application Guard for Office (aka Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office) blocks files downloaded from untrusted sources from gaining access to trusted resources by opening them in sandboxes.