NCSAM Week 2 – Privacy, Safe e-Commerce, What’s Out There About Me?
Welcome to week 2 of National Cyber Security Awareness Month! This week we will again explore all three aspects of this year’s theme – “Own IT, Secure IT, Protect IT”. Remember, the “IT” stands for “information technology”, and, just like…
Emails from info@interviewexchange.com asking you to register are legitimateAs explained in an October 1st email from Wayne Phipps, Director of Human Resources for the college, you will receive an email asking you to register on the new annual performance review site. This is a valid email and you…
Data Breach Notification: Wanelo
Sometime in December 2018, the digital mall Wanelo suffered a data breach that included 23 million unique email addresses along with passwords. Some passwords were stored with weak encryption, others with better encryption. Either way, they are exposed and…
Welcome to National Cyber Security Awareness Month, also known as NCSAM! Every week this month we will explore topics around the theme of “Own IT, Secure IT, Protect IT”. That’s not three typos in a row, that’s “IT” as in…
October News from Information Security
It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month! Woo-hoo! Welcome to October! While it doesn’t feel quite like fall, the calendar says we are there. That means it is once again, for the sixteenth year nationally and fifth year here at Berry,…
In mid-2018, social commerce marketplace Poshmark suffered a data breach that exposed 36M user accounts. Clicking on the link in the previous sentence will take you to an article with more details. The compromised data included email addresses, names, usernames,…
Instagram Phishing Lures You In With Fake Copyright ViolationA new Instagram phishing campaign is threatening users with account suspension because of a “copyright infringement”. A poorly worded email informs you that content in your account “will violate our copyright laws”. Users are asked to fill out a fake…