When an e-mail is the enemy phishing - once only a consumer worry - is now creating headaches for e-mail administrators as businesses become the next target.
Often organizations ignore or minmize phising, assuming that their spam filter alone can detect phishing or that employees can easily tell ~ neither is true.
E-mail phishing targeted towards your organization could expose your corporate network, corporate data, employees and customers such as harvesting an entire database of customer credit card numbers and destroying your reputation. |
| COMMON TYPES OF PHISHING: |
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Bogus Updates
Among the most common types of bogus update is the software update - a fraudulent e-mail that informs your employees of the availability of new versions of software and sends them to spoofed Web sites where they are asked to verify account information to receive the update and then unwittingly download malicious code.
Billing Fraud
Every day in accounting departments someone will receive a phishing e-mail from a vendor and is prompted to expedite payment, by using a corporate credit card to pay the bill online. |
