What is the Biggest Threat to Information Technology?

There are lots of security threats but today I think Phishing is very important to discuss. The most devastating attacks by the most sophisticated attackers almost always begin with simple act of spear-phishing. The fraudulent practice of sending emails ostensibly from a known or trusted sender in order to induce targeted individuals to reveal confidential information is called spear-phishing. Technology is way to fight phasing but most important is education.  Ninety-one percent of hacking attacks today begin with phishing scams or spear phishing attacks.  Preventing a spear phishing attack requires sophisticated security email solutions.

There are many examples of phishing scams but I am will discuss only three phishing techniques.

The first one is started from business email com starts from BEC fraud, where an email appearing to be sent from your boss asks you to make a payment on their behalf. According to FBI, Around 22000 organizations around the world have lost more than 3 billion to it over last three years.

Next example when you book hotel, you go to reception desk and provide all of your information (Personal, credit card etc.). Next someone from outside of the hotel (fraudster) calls the front desk and asks to forward call to your room. And then says “this is the front desk” when checking in , we came across a problem with your charge card information. Please re-read me your credit card information.

Third one is the following window. Please do not call the number listed on window with text that your computer is being hacked. They will ask your personal information and can control your computer or will ask for money to clean up your computer from virus.