An in-house awareness test run late last year at Department of Justice Canada has revealed that a good percentage of its employees are for the most part fairly easy to trick with phishing scams. 
Tag Archives: Phishing
Syrian Electronic Army uses Taboola ad to hack Reuters (again)
Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the hackers’ control. It highlights the need for websites to consider security in a broad context and to not rely solely on traditional server-based defenses.
SCAMwatch – 5 tips to keep your friends and family out of scammers’ clutches
It’s National Consumer Fraud Week in Australia, so the government’s SCAMwatch team has published 5 straight-talking anti-scammer tips. With Aussies alone taken for more than $90M last year, this is a battle we need to keep on fighting all around the globe…
SSCC 151 – Measuring vulns, Apple and Wi-Fi privacy, Android ransomware and more [PODCAST]
It’s our weekly security pocast! Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the latest security news for lessons we can all learn…
Ransom-taking iPhone hackers busted by Russian authorities
The mystery of the ransom messages from “Oleg Pliss,” and the iDevice locking attack that popped up in Australia and the US last month, appears to have been solved.
Phish or legit – Can you tell the difference?
If a legitimate email looks like a phishing email, then how are you supposed to spot what is genuine and what isn’t? John Shier takes a look.
US charges Chinese military officers with cyber espionage
Tensions between China and the United States over spying go back a long way. But – in a first – the US has indicted five Chinese military officials for alleged cyber espionage, which could ratchet up the tension to a new level.
Google and Facebook join forces to take down fake tech support scammers
Web giants Google and Facebook are striking back against tech support scammers who use the companies’ ad networks to snag victims.
AOL Mail accounts breached, users advised to change passwords
AOL users, change your passwords. AOL said it is investigating a large-scale breach of AOL Mail accounts in which user passwords, security questions, mail addresses, and contact lists were compromised.