Posted on 03/07/2016 11:45:22 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
The data-storage company Seagate has been tricked into handing over sensitive tax documents about its employees to unknown people on the internet after it was targeted by an email scam.
Brian Krebs reports that Seagate was sent an email that pretended to be from someone inside the company. An employee fell for it and handed over information on thousands of people.
These email scams are known as "phishing" attacks, in which criminals impersonate company employees to try to gain information about the company or its customers.
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DOJ: Quick, lets make sure that no Syrians trying to get in the country are profiled.
I feel so much safer now.
You have to fill out a JIRA request.
Don’t believe anybody.
Confirm three times using different methods/sources, minimum.
That’s how I survived, and succeeded in test data analysis.
I use that method in almost every encounter in life today (plus a little instinct thrown in, due to life experience).
Only exception: The Bible is always right.
Let’s just be honest. A high ranking executive is not going to ask for W2’s. The problem is gullible employees and no amount of safety mechanisms is going to help you if they have access to the data.
We have hard rules about what can be sent via email but people violate it all the time.
I have a similar mentality.
The company would - some individual employee might not. (Though probably properly instructed. Human failure is what it is.)
Now what the heck are the odds of that. My company recently had an employee respond to a phishing email and hand over ALL OUR PAYROLL records.
Nobody will say who it was, but a big cheese in Finance just quietly resigned a couple of days ago. Stoopid twit.
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