Cybersecurity Awareness Basics
How to avoid identity theft, frauds, scams and more. Click below for more information.
Read our latest Fraud Newsletter: Citizens Fraud Update, Summer 2024
CrowdStrike Tries to Patch Things Up with Cybersecurity Industry
A combination of factors caused the CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint detection and prevention (EDR) sensor to crash, resulting in the global outage affecting 8.5 million Windows systems in July, the company said last week in a root-cause analysis of the incident. At the same time, CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz and president Michael Sentonas were at Black Hat in Las Vegas with a public mea culpa. (Dark Reading - Cybersecurity Operations, 2024)
Using Credit Cards and Disputing Charges
How you handle credit and paying your bills is an Important factor in your credit history and affects how much you will pay to get credit. When it comes to using a credit card, you have rights and responsibilities under the law, including your right to dispute billing errors. (Federal Trade Commission Consumer Advice, 2022)
Scammers Target Young Adults on Social Media with Fake Check Scam
Did you get a message on social from an “artist” asking to pay you for permission to paint your photo? It’s a scam. They don’t want to pay you — they want to take your money. Young adults report this scam begins with a direct message on social media from someone who says they like your photo and want to pay you thousands of dollars to use it. Next, they’ll send you a check. They’ll tell you to deposit it, take some money out to send to the artist for supplies, and keep the rest. They may promise to reimburse any money you send back. (Bungo, 2024)
Protect Yourself from Scams as you Recover from Hurricane Beryl
If you live in the path of Hurricane Beryl as it moved through Texas, recovering is your number one priority right now. Unfortunately, scammers take advantage of situations like these to strike. Here's some information to help you spot and avoid the scams as you do your best to recover. (Heras, 2024)
Tech School Hack Affects Health, Personal Data of 209,000
An Arizona-based technical school is notifying nearly 209,000 current and former students, parents, guardians and faculty that their personal, health and financial information was potentially compromised in a hacking incident detected earlier this year. The attack was carried out by ransomware-as-a-service group LockBit. (McGee, 2024)
Insider Threat: KnowBe4 Thwarts North Korean Infiltration Attempt
KnowBe4, a cybersecurity company specializing in awareness training and simulated phishing, recently disclosed an attempted infiltration by a North Korean operative posing as a software engineer. This incident sheds light on the evolving tactics of state-sponsored threat actors and underscores the need for enhanced security measures in hiring processes. (Todd, 2024)
For organizations of all sizes, managing risk (including information security and privacy risk), is critical for organizational resilience. This guide is designed to help small, under-resourced entities understand the value and core components of the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) and provide a starting point for designing and implementing an information security and privacy risk management program. This document is not intended to replace the RMF; it is intended to be an introductory guide to help organizations get started. (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2024)
Invest in Resiliency and Protect Your Data | Jack Henry FinTalk
With today’s accountholders expecting you to have the necessary precautions in place to minimize downtime and protect their data, data resiliency and recovery solutions are critical to your short- and long-term success. Power outages, internet service provider outages, severe weather, and cyberattacks are just some of the many threats that cause financial institutions across the country to declare the need for disaster recovery services. In fact, the financial services industry continues to be a target for cyberattacks, with system intrusion, miscellaneous errors, and social engineering representing 78% of breaches. (Westfall, 2024)