Phishing Attack

Notice that the web link in the email does not actually go to the BMO site!

SMS Phishing

I received a text message today and it made me think about an increase in phishing attacks via text messaging or SMS. You’ll recall that phishing is using a social engineering technique to get you to respond by clicking or trying to login or give your personal info to a fake website. This usually comes […]

Gone Phishing

Email services are regularly receiving phishing attacks. Our servers block many but a few get by on occasion. A Phishing attack is usually  an official sounding email about a bank, ebay, paypal, facebook, etc that is looking to get you to follow a link to fill in information about yourself or account information so that […]

Twitter phishing example – think before you click

Think before you click. That’s one of the themes of several talks that I do, or emails out to staff around nefarious communications that we receive digitally. One I haven’t talked much about is people using twitter as the medium to get you to click through instead of via email. I received this tweet below […]