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Personal information belonging to over half a million students … may have been compromised in a data breach incident.  An unauthorized person baited the staff with phishing emails to collect credentials to log into the district’s network services.

University officials tell News Channel 11 that two unidentified employees clicked on a link in the phishing scam that was sent to their e-mail accounts.

Step one for not falling victim to business email compromise schemes: Senior managers must ensure they have a written and tested plan in place to ensure they don’t fall victim to the schemes, also known as CEO fraud.

De website werd namelijk getroffen door de zwaarste hackeraanval in zijn geschiedenis, waardoor de hackers in kwestie toegang kregen tot gebruikersdata van bijna 50 miljoen accounts.

It’s not great when any organisation loses a laptop, but if the contents of the computer’s hard drive have been fully encrypted and a strong password has been used it’s hardly the end of the world.

Using two sets of weak, easy-to-guess usernames and passwords, a security researcher accessed an internal staff portal.

Sophisticated malware has taken down systems in at least two Alaskan municipalities in an attack that officials say is the worst they have ever seen.

Phishing attacks have been a key part of some of the most high-profile hacks in recent years, but they’re also used in smaller, less diabolical schemes as well. KTVU reports that a student at Ygnacio Valley High School in California used a phishing scam to access the school district’s computer system and change a number […]

Oplichters hebben een dertiger uit Bredene 7.000 euro afhandig gemaakt. Hij reageerde op een malafide mail en zag zijn rekeningen geplunderd worden.

… Het wachtwoord was in 2013 voor het laatst veranderd, ‘omdat het zelden gebruikt werd’. Er was ook geen tweede bevestiging nodig bij het inloggen, …