I have been too busy to write blog posts… I will be writing a couple of quick ones during my trip West…

We are being inundated by cleverer phishing attempts. Though our attempts to educate our users are helping, the new phishing attempts are essentially bypassing the safeguards that we have put forth and rely on social engineering.

Imagine getting a very short email from the President of the College or the Provost. Mind you, the hacker is careful to choose who to send it to. If it is coming from the President, the person has researched who are likely to be communicating with her – senior leaders, support staff etc., all of which is publicly available.  (more…)