NY Supreme Court Justice Lost Over $1 Million in Email Scam

The New York Daily News is reporting that Acting State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler was the victim of an email scam while trying to sell her apartment and buy another.     Justice Sattler The press report says that a person posing as the Justice's lawyer sent her an email with payment instructions. Believing the email came from her lawyer, the justice wired $1,057,500 to the account specified in the email. The money was then transferred to Commerce Bank of China. The Justice was the victim of a crime of deception perpetrated using email.  This crime relied on the fact that [...]

2017-06-22T08:54:10-04:00June 22nd, 2017|Cybersecurity - General, Phishing, SP Guard, spear phishing|

US Election Hacking

The Intercept_ is reporting about Russian hacking of the presidential election, citing a document that may have been obtained from the NSA. This graphic provides an overview of the Russian cyberattack methodology: This graphic reveals the true nature of a spearphishing cyberattack  - the target of these attacks is human cognition, computers are merely the means to convey the deception. How do you defend human cognition against deception? With a tool that reveals the deception. That is what SP Guard does.

2017-06-06T15:46:07-04:00June 6th, 2017|Cybersecurity - General, SP Guard, spear phishing|