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Int'l Standard Serial No. - ISSN: 1523-3537  2016-No. 43 - September 13, 2017
The most valuable thing you do for your company this year could be taking a test...
We encourage every one of our clients and every one of their staff members to take one or more of these tests to become a little more familiar with how to recognize Phishing schemes:
Wikipedia defines Phishing as: 

"The attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication."

It's a giant and growing problem:

  • Phishing scams have increased dramatically while also becoming more-and-more sophisticated.
  • The USPS Inspector General reports that about 156 million phishing emails are sent globally every day!
  • Software security company SOPHOS estimated that Phishing schemes lead to as much as $3.1 billion in damages during 2016
  • Look for these warning signs:
Could it happen to you?
Unfortunately in 5 years 2SS.Com has has 3 clients hit by phishing schemes that successfully delivered and installed ransomware. With client #1 a local user was infected and the ransomware migrated to impact the local PC, the company server in another city, and then impacted most all of the company's users. With client #2 a stand-alone user suffered a similar but localized fate.  And, client #3 was impacted when a local user was hit, and the company's file sharing software distributed the ransomware to every shared file on the network.
 

We're pleased to advise that due to recent backups each of these led to a recovery, and at least two reasonably happy clients. Unfortunately client #3 had their backup unavailable for about a week (<-- A problem we later fixed), but client #2 was so displeased with the cost of the recovery effort that soon after recovering their data we found ourselves in discussions that ended with 2SS.Com resigning the account.  With clients #1 and #3 the damage to each of the initially targeted PCs was so thorough that we ended up wiping and rebuilding those PCs.
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