Blake Deshazo reports: Personal and financial information of current and former employees of Wallace Community College Selma has been accidentally leaked through a phishing scam, according to an attorney representing the school. Alex Walker, an attorney with Mullen Coughlin, a law firm that specializes in cybersecurity and data privacy, said on Feb. 5 an employee…
Category: Phishing
Florida school district seeking settlement with W-2 phishing data breach victims
Herald Tribune reports: On Tuesday, School District of Manatee County officials will ask the school board to approve a $300,000 settlement to a class action lawsuit being brought by school district employees who say they suffered damages from a massive data breach last January. On Jan. 26, 2017 a payroll employee responded to an email…
Higher Ed Users Are Less Susceptible to Phishing Scams
Meghan Bogardus Cortez reports: University end users are pretty good at identifying a scam. Only 10 percent of simulated phishing emails sent to users at education institutions were successful, a new study from Wombat Security Technologies reports. The company monitored tens of millions of simulated phishing attacks sent over the course of a year through…
Phishing schemes net hackers millions of dollars from Fortune 500
Charlie Osborne reports: Fortune 500 companies are losing millions of dollars due to new and sophisticated phishing scams conducted by cyberattackers, IBM has discovered. On Wednesday, researchers from IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) team said the Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme is currently active and is successfully targeting Accounts Payable (AP) teams…
PA: Purchase Line SD officials discuss cybersecurity after incident
Patrick Cloonan reports: Officials in the Purchase Line School District are looking to avoid a repeat of a recent case of theft by deception that targeted the district’s emails and approximately 100 of its vendors. […] Their move is the latest in a series of steps taken since Jan. 31 when, as described by Superintendent…
A phishing attack scored credentials for more than 50,000 Snapchat users
Casey Newton reports: In late July, Snap’s director of engineering emailed the company’s team in response to an unfolding privacy threat. A government official from Dorset in the United Kingdom had provided Snap with information about a recent attack on the company’s users: a publicly available list, embedded in a phishing website named klkviral.org, that…