Scam – Fraudulent Purchase Orders
Purchase order fraud occurs when a scammer contacts a vendor and impersonates a legitimate customer. While posing as the representative…
FBI Offers Tips for Safe Online Shopping
From ZDNet: Ahead of the yearly Christmas shopping spree, one of the FBI’s regional offices has published yesterday a series…
Phishing Email ALERT: “Payroll Schedule Message”
A number of Fordham users have received phishing messages from senders with the address format “username@colorado.edu.” The subject line is…
Ransomware Impersonates Microsoft Update
From CNET: With the end of support for Windows 7 coming in January, many users are looking to update to…
Phishing Scam Warning That Your Password Will be Changed
Article sourced from BleepingComputer. To read full article, click here. A phishing campaign is underway where the attackers state that…
FBI: China Behind Intellectual Property Theft at US Universities
From Campus Safety Magazine: The FBI has been working to stop the theft of technology and trade secrets by Chinese…
Social Engineering can happen anywhere.
Always pay attention to your surroundings. Shoulder surfing is a form of social engineering behavior used by those with malicious…
Ransomware.
What is Ransomware? Ransomware is malicious software that is installed onto your device once it is compromised, that will both…
Potential Hurricane Dorian Cyber Scams
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity targeting Hurricane Dorian disaster…
Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet – Security Tips
Why is computer security important? Because computers play such critical roles in our lives, and because we input and view…