Earlier this month the Syrian Electronic Army compromised Microsoft’s @MSFTNews twitter account. At that time, the SEA said that this was not done attacking Microsoft. Today, the SEA hacked the Microsoft Office Blog:
How is the SEA able to compromise one of the leading technology companies in the world? The SEA attacks the people using spearphising. ITWorld reports:
“A social engineering cyberattack method known as phishing resulted in a small number of Microsoft employee social media and email accounts being impacted,” a Microsoft representative said Thursday via email. “These accounts were reset and no customer information was compromised. We continue to take a number of actions to protect our employees and accounts against this industry-wide issue.”
Spearphishers deceive people into making bad email decisions that compromise security. IT needs to help employees make better email processing decisions. That is where SP Guard comes into play. Using SP Guard, IT can determine a list of trusted senders and provide this information to staff in a simple and highly effective manner.
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