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Daily Archives: February 14, 2015
SpearPhishing in Omaha Tricked a Financial Controller to send $17.2 Million to China
The FBI was brought in to investigate The Scoular Company after the controller wired $17.2 million dollars to China through their accounting firm, KPMG. There were emails to the controller from an email address that resembled but was not the … Continue reading
Posted in Security Blog
Tagged Information Technology Security Awareness, Omaha, phishing, Scoular, Security Awareness, social engineering, spear phishing, spearphishing, two-factor
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White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection
That’s not an Illuminati hand sign, it’s the CIA Triad! On February 12th, President Obama signed an Executive Order to encourage and promote sharing of cybersecurity threat information within the private sector and between the private sector and government. Rapid … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, CIA Triad, Congress, Executive Order, framework, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Obama, threat information sharing, whitehouse
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Phishing Anthem
Since my original posting about the Anthem Health Insurance Breach… Investigators believe the cyber crooks compromised the logins from 5 different tech workers, possibly through a phishing scheme that could have tricked them into unknowingly revealing a password or downloading … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Anthem, breach, Identity Theft, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering
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