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Case Study: Click Armor provided a 50% improvement in average end-user phishing awareness for one customer. How’s your phishing assessment doing?
You may be happy with the results from your end-user phishing assessments. But how confident are you that users have actually improved their analytical skills? For that, you need meaningful baseline and final proficiency tests, not just a click-through rate on...
MSP Tips: 6 ways to co-manage cyber liabilities with customers
Cyber security risk of customers is becoming a hot topic among MSPs. Recently, I have heard comments from some providers who have been struggling with customers that are demanding that thei MSP take on very high levels of responsibility for cyber security incidents....
Can I Be Phished? – Ep. 7 Funny FedEx Offer – featuring Pete Matheson
This episode features Pete Matheson, the founder of Tekkers IT Managed Services. Pete lives in the UK, and now coaches IT businesses on video marketing. Try the "CAN I BE PHISHED?" online self-assessment game to get a taste of how fun and effective gamified learning...
Medical billing provider breached due to email account compromise, impacts personal health data of its customers’ patients
A July 2020 breach notification that details an email account take-over at medical billing provider Administrative Advantage revealed that there was a large range of personal health data accessible within an employee email account. The question of how it happened, and...
Did this company unfairly promise its employees a COVID vaccination in a phishing test?
In March of 2021, the marketing agency ICF Next ran a “live phishing assessment” on over 400 of its workers to test their vulnerability to phishing attacks, and ostensibly, to teach them a lesson about being careful with suspicious messages. It’s a common technique...
Guest appearance on The MSP Show: How gamification of cyber security awareness brings new value for MSPs
A few weeks ago I had Stuart Crawford from Ulistic MSP Marketing on as a guest in the "Can I Be Phished?" podcast, where we unboxed a phishing email that looked like an Amazon shipping confirmation. This time, I joined Stuart on The MSP Show, to discuss the benefits...
An example of how quickly a phishing attack can lead to a serious data breach
It is scary how quickly attacks can escalate and impact organizations within a supply chain, where messages from friendly accounts are typically trusted.An email compromise can spread quickly On January 4, an attacker took over an email account at a healthcare...
DriveSure data breach: How could a data breach at a company you don’t know impact you?
We all have a sense of the companies we trust. And we may trust our local car dealer when we provide them with some basic information. But as 3 million car owners learned recently, it’s not just the companies you trust, it’s the supply chain to those companies that...
Can I Be Phished? Ep. 6 – Deceitful Delivery
This episode features Stuart Crawford, a fellow Canadian, now living in Florida. Stuart heads up Ulistic MSP Marketing, which helps service providers market their services to customers. Try the "CAN I BE PHISHED?" online self-assessment game to get a taste of how fun...
The cost of misplaced online love is getting higher
You might think it's easy to spot a scammer in an online dating app. But the data indicates that online dating scams increased by 50% last year. It's not hard to imagine that the impacts of COVID lockdowns can cause people to be emotionally vulnerable.A Valentines Day...
Can I Be Phished? Ep. 5 – Vexatious Voicemail
This episode features my guest Nora Cox, a veteran information security and risk management consultant. Nora and I worked together as Product Managers at security software company Entrust many years ago. Her experience in Chief Risk Officer and Chief Compliance...
Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook?
We've all seen the repeating waves of calls to quit Facebook. Often these movements are in protest of the company's poor privacy policies. With over 2 billion apparently active "users" (many of whom are bots and scammers), it's unlikely that a grass-roots movement...
Is gamification of phishing and social engineering awareness just a fad?
For people who have been doing serious work in IT or Cyber, there are so many serious problems to be solved, and the problems are mounting. So, it's understandable when professionals who are focused every day on those serious problems are asked about gamification....
Why would I ever be targeted by a cyberattacker?
Most people feel they will never be targeted by attackers because they aren't working on anything very exciting, when the reality is, anyone can and will be targeted, even if it is just as a stepping stone Here are some reasons that you may be targeted, even if you...
Can I Be Phished? Ep. 4 – Abnormal Administrator with Ted Demopoulos
This episode features my guest Ted Demopoulos, a veteran security consultant and author I've known for many years. Ted works in all areas of security, and is very active in helping consultants and entrepreneurs build their companies. Ted helps me unbox a phishing...
