Update: The screen capture below was taken from the Parents Nest page on Facebook. The only parent to get through to anyone at Charter School Associates that can provide information didn’t receive any of the phishing emails and was given a head in the sand denial about the email compromise. Read more…
Email might seem trivial to some people, but if you are active in using the internet to bank, shop, conduct research, ship items, sell items at auction, and a myriad of other activities your life revolves around email. If a hacker were able to take over your email account they could reset passwords to all of your online accounts and determine what your security question answers are based on the interests the hacker would discover in the content of your emails. It’s important to have application based two-factor authentication, not email or SMS (text message). If you are unsure about what you should do in the event your email account is taken over by a hacker, check here. (more…)
The Deloitte accounting firm stands as one of the largest private companies in the US, which reported $38.8 billion in revenue last fiscal year which offers tax, auditing, operations consulting, cybersecurity advisory, and merger and acquisition assistance services to large banks, government agencies, and large Fortune 500 multinationals, among others, has been hacked. (more…)