A Brief Note On Phishing Protection And Prevention

Another threat is Phishing, it is the fraudulent practice of sending emails pretending to be from reputable companies in order to lure individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.

The recent years there has been many breaches in organizations throughout the globe. These attacks have had terrible outcomes and have cause Havoc on several companies because of the security that they had were vulnerable to external attacks. Many applications and software programs were infected. These attacks all occurred over the internet. As the internet keeps growing it is harder than ever to track down were the attacks generate from (location) that is. Because of these protocols, the security breaches still are occurring and difficult to eliminate and design a cure for them as they change as frequently as technology does. Because of the ease of the attacks, user simply click on a link and the attack is executed. Because of the recent

As value customers of the Anthem, Inc. we believe it is important to keep each one of you informed of any incident that might affect your business with us. Your privacy and security is our priority for the reason Anthem, Inc. would like to inform our customers of a recent phishing attack. Unfortunately, we have experienced similar attacks in the past which led many of the employees and customers’ data exposed to hackers. Even though this is a serious matter for the company and the customers it is important for us to make our customers aware that phishing attacks are common and they cause huge losses to both the customers and the companies (Wright et al., 2014). Our most recent attack took place on April 2014 and it affected about 80 million identifiable data stolen via phishing emails. The

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Additionally, visiting these sites opens our computer systems to hacking, theft, and fraud, which could result in a catastrophic breach of confidential data such as client information and employee profiles.

The article discusses the importance of analyzing spam emails, and says it cannot be emphasized enough. Most people tend to get confused between the junk and spam emails. This article focuses on digital investigations of malicious messages and different methods used by criminals in spamming unsuspecting users are also discussed.

In today’s’ world effective communication is one of the key for successful business and this is an era of E communication. All the businesses and companies use electronic mail for communication. With increase in ease of E communication in businesses there are certain risks involved. To control certain risks associated with E communication, CAN SPAM Act come into the picture in 2003.

Recently, the company has been the subject of a data breach in which confidential files in the network have been accessed by an unknown party. Upon investigation we have found that a supervisor that handles customer complaints received an e-mail from what appeared to have been a customer with a complaint regarding an error on the website. Upon investigation he found no such error, but did find that the return address did not exist. It is very likely the company has become the victim of one or more social engineers seeking to exfiltrate data from the company. It is believed that that source of the attack was a spear phishing campaign via the e-mail sent to the supervisor that oversees customer complaints. While supervisor e-mails are not normally

Bank of America is a multinational banking institute and one of the most trusted in the banking industry. This organizations sole purpose is to protect the customer’s confidentiality and assets by ensuring that data protection is the number one priority; however any organization when holding personal information can be a victim of data breach and BoA is not exempt. One of the largest risks BoA faces today is Mobile Banking. This consumer convenience is used by fifty percent of smart phone owners (Finney, 2014). Phishing is also threat to the banking industry; this strategy by hackers allows the extraction of consumer passwords and other sensitive information. Hackers targeting banking institution employees with convincing e-mails that fool them into clicking on malicious links-which ultimately compromise their credentials or

Phishing attacks are the most common attacks which help the attacker to gain valuable information about the victim. The attacker use some advanced techniques which help them to bypass the Internet service provider email defense systems as well as anti-phishing techniques implemented by email providers. In today’s world, most of the cyber criminals are using spear-phishing attack so that they can install malware on the victim’s machine which can help the attacker to gain long-term access to the victim’s computer and information. Spear Phishing emails can have the attachments in many file formats such as .pdf, .docx, .doc. The file type such as .com or .exe is called executable files which help the attacker to gain access to the victim’s system

The keys to prevention and detection of social engineering attacks should be included in the organizations security policy. Social engineering attacks require the same approach and security posture as another type of attacks on an organizations information and data. The organization must identify its assets, turn up span mail features, clarify the line between work and personal, develop effective access management, and conduct training and awareness of

All employees will be required to take a social engineering course and the HR department will document the entire employee training regardless of their position in the company. The company will also provide email training on how to determine if someone is trying to use social engineering on the employee to gain information they should not have. During the training the company procedures and policy will address what can happen when these policies are violated. The company could consider using honey spot server, which would have a fake email server and other application server, in which a hacker will think they are on the live systems, but will really be on a fake systems and have alarms setup to inform the IT staff of any intrusion. To prevent spoofing, the IT staff can set up email authentication using signed and secure email message format. This encryption method will allow the sender encrypt the message with the receiver public key. The receiver will use the sender public key to verify the message and use his or her own private key to decrypt the

The sheer availability of information and the ease of access to such information to even the most novice computer user is helping fuel the growth of this type of cybercrime. There are some ways to protect ourselves and our families.

The increasing volume and sophistication of cyber security threats including targeted data theft, phishing scams and other online vulnerabilities demand that we remain vigilant about securing our systems and information.

Phishing is a serious problem in the progressively limitless service of the internet. There are many ways to trick the people to disclose the information by using social engineering attack. It can take form of spam email, fake