This week health workers and other staff at Oregon Health and Science University were promised several thousand dollars as part of a COVID-19 hardship bonus. But the email was fake, and it was sent by ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For some employees at Oregon Health & Science University, an email sent by the university on April 12 offering up to $7,500 in financial assistance may have seemed like a lifeline.

Last year’s Verizon data breaches report found that 80% of all cyber security attacks started with a phishing email enticing the recipient to click on a link, open a document or download a file, so it ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon Health & Science University is on the hook after sending a phishing email to employees earlier this week offering thousands in financial assistance. On Tuesday, the ...

Security by design has long been something of a holy grail for cybersecurity professionals. It’s a simple concept: ensure products are designed to be as secure as possible in order to minimize the ...

Cybersecurity training programs as implemented today by most large companies do little to reduce the risk that employees will fall for phishing scams–the practice of sending malicious emails posing as ...

Phishing, i.e., the act of manipulating people into sharing sensitive information online, remains one of the most persistent ...

The number of phishing websites increased by 250% between the last quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of this year, according to new Anti-Phishing Working Group data. That may be an eye-popping ...

An FBI agent works on a computer during a Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team operation in 2021. (FBI photo) A new report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) contains ...

Nearly every security incident begins with some kind of social engineering or phishing attack. What’s even more worrisome is that phishing volume itself is growing year over year. Adversaries are ...