Phishing attacks top cause of data breaches in Australia: report
Ninety seven per cent of Australian businesses have suffered a data breach in the past 12 months, according to a Carbon Black threat report.
Ninety seven per cent of Australian businesses have suffered a data breach in the past 12 months, according to a Carbon Black threat report.
A sophisticated phishing email purporting to be from Telstra has been identified by MailGuard. "It's just mind-blowingly awesome," the security vendor's CEO Craig McDonald said on Monday.
Australia Post is warning customers to steer clear of a phishing website that has been designed to look like its homepage.
Phishing attacks on enterprises can be calamitous in terms of compromised networks or damaged brand names, and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), which aggregates and analyzes phishing trends data worldwide, offers some of the best insight from industry into what's occurring globally in terms of this cybercrime. The following list of frequently asked questions about phishing is derived from the APWG's April report that covers the period July-December 2012 worldwide.
It’s no secret that social engineering attacks, including phishing, spear-phishing and whaling, have grown from a nuisance to a colossal problem. A growing list of companies have been hit by these methods — sometimes to the tune of millions of dollars in data or financial losses.