Mar 13, 2018 | Fraud, Shopping Scams
You might have already seen the headline plastered across local news sites, but Delaware State Police have issued a warning concerning credit card skimmers. After the recent discovery of skimmers on gas pumps and ATMs in Newark, New Castle, Harrington, and Seaford,...
Mar 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Some bright-eyed colleagues of ours spotted this phish in their inboxes before 7:00 a.m. this morning: Even though this phish uses a pretty good facsimile of UD branding, the grammar and language issues and the sender from another university should let you identify it...
Feb 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you’re reading this, you may have spotted February’s test phishing email! This email was sent as part of the Secure UD “Take a BITE out of phish!” campaign, a University initiative to raise our community’s awareness about phishing attacks, their consequences, and...
Feb 6, 2018 | Mobile, Web Browsing
Think for a moment — what’s the last place you would expect a cybercriminal to target? Did you guess the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang? No? We didn’t either. Spear phishing for big guys and data Turns out, cybercriminals are using Olympic...
Feb 5, 2018 | Adobe, Microsoft
Adobe issued an advisory about another vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and earlier versions. Adobe warns that “Successful exploitation could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.” Adobe expects to issue a...
Feb 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
This phish was pretty easy to spot. But, still, it poses danger for those skimming their email quickly and, therefore, more likely to react to a faux warning by clicking without thinking: How did people know this was a phish? They asked themselves questions like...
Jan 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
In a world where phishing scams can come from anywhere at any time, whom can we trust? There are trustworthy sites and links, and there are sites and links that set off that little alarm in your head. Some sites, like Google for instance, probably never raise those...
Jan 30, 2018 | Social Media
There’s nothing worse than getting those spammy messages on Facebook from that person you accidentally followed three years ago. You probably scoff and shake your head, appalled at how dim someone has to be to get their account hacked, but then you head over to...
Jan 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
We’ve received multiple reports of people seeing email in their inboxes claiming that the UD IT Support Center is going to “De-activate” [sic] their accounts. The scam came to UD inboxes using correct UD terminology (UD ID, IT Support Center). How...
