November 2021 Phishing Webinar

By Dustin Briles • November 08, 2021 • 0 Comments

Last week we held a webinar on phishing and other security topics. This was essentially a refresh of the 2019 webinar we did, with two specific goals in mind:

Shorter length - I wanted to keep this webinar shorter. I know that I personally don't like to attend long webinars,

Some thoughts about the Twitter hack

By Dustin Briles • July 20, 2020 • 0 Comments

EDIT 2020-08-03: It looks like the Bitcoin scam was conducted by three younger people (one is a minor) after a long period of reconnaissance and successful social engineering attacks against internal Twitter employees.

Sources:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/florida-teen-arrested-charged-with-being-mastermind-

Beware of telephone scams (and today is Slam the Scam Day?)

By Dustin Briles • March 05, 2020 • 0 Comments

I got an email update from CISA yesterday telling me that apparently today is "Slam the Scam" Day. You can read the update in its entirety here. This is an excerpt:

In association with the Federal Trade Commission’s National Consumer Protection Week, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has designated

Phishing - Why We Need Training (And Why 2FA Isn't Enough)

By Dustin Briles • July 26, 2019 • 0 Comments

Last week we dealt with a phishing attack that turned out to be a bit scary. The attack used a technique that I knew was possible, but had only read about before (check out this post on Reddit). This was the first time I had actually seen it for myself.

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