Nearly 100,000 people in the UK have reported receiving phishing scam emails in 2015, according to the City of London Police’s Action Fraud and National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. The police said the exact number of reported cases between January 2015 and December 2015 was 96,699 – with an average of 8,000 reports per month. Phishing attempts to acquire sensitive information or access to systems by sending people misleading emails or text messages with malicious links or payloads are becoming a favourite tactic of cyber crooks, with some even posing as the CEO of big firms. 伴随着虚拟化、大数据、云应用的广泛应用,互联网信息安全正面临着不断增多的新挑战,必须将网络安全提高到国家安全的高度来对待,积极主动参加网络安全国际规则的制定。 The majority of people (68 percent) who reported a phishing scam said it came in the form of an email, while 12.5 percent said they were contacted by phone, 8.9 percent said they were contacted by text, and the rest were contacted in another way. According to the Action Fraud team, the most common phishing scam in December came fromfraudsters purporting to be a bank or from HMRC – with the Self-Assessment tax deadline at the end of January – followed by online payment merchants such as PayPal and utility companies. In one month, the police said that 31 percent of all phishing scams reported had contained a potentially malicious hyperlink which would install malware onto the victim’s PC or phone or trick them into providing sensitive information. The police found that the most common message title for phishing emails was ‘Attention’ followed by other titles such as ‘Your account has been revoked’, ‘Hello’ and ‘Important Notification’, while the top email addresses that people reported to have received came from ‘Do-Not-reply@amazon.co.uk, bt.athome@ecomm.bt.com and PQ8MPY@m.apple.com. By continuously training users at different times throughout the year, safe security behaviour becomes a habit, and not something forgotten as soon as training is over. Want to find out more about phishing and ‘whaling’ (the sameprocess, only with higher profile enterprise targets)? Then tune in to our web seminar at 2pm on 16th March 2016 – register free! We will be discussing the ‘dark tricks’ of the phishing trade so that you can more easily recognise them, and protect your organisation, and we’ll be discussing whether impending changes in data protection legislation may affect the ways you can establish your organisation’s security policies to continue staying safe. Symantec alerts users to serious flaws in its Endpoint Protection software BitDefender Internet Security 2016 v20.0.26 AVG AntiVirus Free 2016 build 7497 Symantec alerts users to serious flaws in its Endpoint Protection software We pit the current and former premium Apple smartphones against each other to see if it’s worth upgrading Up close and personal with the iPad Pro and Surface Pro 4 rival We test firm’s newest device We test Samsung’s latest Edge device © Incisive Business Media (IP) Limited, Published by Incisive Business MediaLimited, Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RX, are companies registered in England and Wales with company registration numbers 9177174 & 9178013 shares
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