Phish Tales and other Scams
This type of scam involves emails or messages that trick you into clicking on malicious links or opening attachments.
What is Phishing
This is a security measure that requires two different forms of identification to access an account.
What is MFA/2FA?
This is an attack that manipulates people into revealing confidential information or performing actions that benefit the attacker.
What is a social engineering attack?
This is a copy of your important files stored on a separate device.
What is a backup?
This is a phrase used to describe altered videos and audio to make it appear that a person has done or said something they have not.
What is a deep fake?
This type of scam involves tricking the user into scanning malicious QR codes.
What is Quishing
What is a strong or secure password?
This is a type of attack that involves encrypting or stealing data and demanding compensation for access back to systems.
What is ransomware?
This is a set of guidelines designed to ensure that employees maintain an organized and clutter-free workspace.
What is a clean desk policy?
This is the type of information you should avoid entering into a chatbot.
What is PII or passwords or financial data?
This type of scam involves multiple pop ups and alarms suggesting the user call a number for assistance in removing the computer virus
What is Scareware
This is a best practice to follow for your operate system, browsers and applications on all your devices.
What is staying up to date with updates/patches?
This is a type of attack that involves continual attempts of guessing the password to access to a system or account.
This phrase describes when an unauthorized visitor follows an authorized employee into a secured office after the secured door is opened.
What is Tailgating?
This type of attack has become more efficient with the use of AI, allowing cybercriminals to test billions of passwords in minutes.
What is Brute Force Attacks
This is a type of scam where a scammer builds a fake online relationship with a victim, often pretending to be a wealthy individual, before eventually asking for money or personal information?
What is a Pig Butchering Scam.
This is what you should do if you get a notice that your account on a website has been compromised.
What is Change your password immediately.
This is an attack that aims to overload a network or server, making it inaccessible.
What is a Denial of service (Dos or DDOS) attack.
This is the phrase used to describe a place where information such as emails and passwords are exposed.
What is "The Dark Web"?
This is an AI service cybercriminals use to expand their operations globally and target individuals in specific regions with local scams.
What are AI translation services?
This scam uses social media or online forums to target individuals or groups with personalized messages.
What is Spear Phishing
This is one of the things you should check before entering personal information on a website.
What is "the url starts with HTTPS" or secure connection
This is an attack that intercepts communications between two parties to eavesdrop or modify data.
What is a man-in-the-middle (MITM) Attack.
This an individual within an organization who misuses or mishandles their authorized access such that a breach may occur.
This is used to describe when an AI chatbot gives nonsensical or incorrect information.
What is hallucinate?