If you eat out or are in the habit of ordering take-out on a regular basis, be aware. Recently, a large, well-organized web-skimming campaign has been uncovered that allowed hackers to swipe the payment card details for more than 300 restaurants, impacting more than 50,000 customers. Web-skimmers are sometimes called Magecart malware and they are bits of JavaScript that collects credit card data when shoppers enter their card data on the checkout page on an online payment portal. [...]
According to ongoing research by Group-IB, a massive phishing campaign is currently underway. This is a campaign that has impacted no less than 130 organizations across a broad range of industries. These include but are not limited to professional recruiting firms and companies connected to finance and technology. Some of the companies targeted include giants in their respective fields such as: TTEC Best Buy HubSpot Evernote Riot Games AT&T Epic Games [...]
Do you make use of the "MyChart" portal to refill prescriptions, contact your healthcare providers or make appointments? If so, you should know that recently, the healthcare giant Novant disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 1.3 million patients. Impacted patients had their personal information collected by a Meta Pixel ad tracking script. Meta Pixel, which was formerly known as Facebook Pixel, is a mostly innocuous tracking script used by Facebook advertisers to track[...]
Twilio is the Cloud Communications Company. They are the latest to fall victim to a data breach. The company recently disclosed that some of its customer data was accessed by unknown attackers who gained access to the system by stealing employee login credentials via an SMS phishing attack, known as 'Smishing,' for short. The company's disclosure reads in part as follows: "On August 4, 2022, Twilio became aware of unauthorized access to information related to a limited number of [...]
Researchers at Lumen's Black Lotus Labs recently spotted evidence of a highly sophisticated and tightly targeted campaign aimed at SOHO (small office/home office) routers across both Europe and North America. Based on the evidence the team has collected thus far, their conclusion is that the unidentified actor must be state sponsored. This is because garden variety hackers do not typically have the tools, techniques, and procedures in place to pull off the kinds of attacks that the [...]
The more efficient you are, the more effective you are. That's true whether you're working from the office or from home. Fortunately, most office environments lend themselves to being efficient, so there's probably not much you need to do on that front. So, the tips below are aimed mostly at those who are working from home. Having said that, if you want to try and squeeze out a bit more efficiency from your office setup, you can certainly apply these ideas there too! 1 - A [...]
Researchers at Trustwave have shed light on a recently discovered phishing campaign revolving around Facebook Messenger bots. If you don't spend much time on social media, chatbots are programs designed to impersonate live people and are usually relegated the task of answering simple questions as a form of triage customer support. If the bot can't answer the question, then a handoff escalation is made to a human customer support person. That's how it's supposed to work, [...]
Hackers found a new way to slip malware past your defenses. Researchers around the world have spotted a curious new campaign designed to scare victims by sending them emails warning of copyright infringement. The email begins by warning that the recipient's website is hosting copyright-protected content and threatens legal action if the offending material isn't removed immediately. The red flag here is that rather than simply spelling out what materials are copyright protected [...]
Conflict in the workplace is sadly inevitable. Put a group of people in a room together for eight hours or longer every day, week after week. No matter how well they get along, sooner or later, it's going to happen. Since it can't be completely avoided, the next best thing is to have a plan for when it occurs. That's because if left unaddressed, employee conflicts can ruin morale and permanently damage your company's culture. Simply put, letting conflicts in the workplace [...]
Do the meetings you hold tend run off the rails? Do you find that they frequently run far longer than you intended and that very little actually comes out of them? If those things are true and if you're looking for ways to improve the structure of your meetings, here are some quick tips that will help make them more effective: 1 - Consider Your Attendees Carefully Unless someone's presence is essential at any given meeting, don't send them an invite. Keep the circle as [...]
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