Amazon recently launched a new product, called Amazon One, that claims to simplify the everyday shopping experience by putting your payment method quite literally in the palm of your hand. Walk into any one of several Amazon four-star locations around the country to set up this service—all you need is your hand, a mobile number, […]
This month, in recognition of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Halloween, we wanted to outline a “spooky” vulnerability in Apple’s Express Transit feature. Cybersecurity researchers from the University of Birmingham and University of Surrey have revealed a flaw which could allow hackers to bypass Apple’s security functions and make contactless payments even with the screen locked. The […]
We received a report of an FIT alumnus who received a text message from someone pretending to a high level executive at FIT. We want to alert you of the dangers of smishing (text message phishing) and to remind you that official college communication is never sent in the form of a text message.“SMS” phishing […]
This month we’re going to look at a growing phenomenon that pulls together a couple of themes that we’ve touched on in these updates and in other aspects of our Cybersafe campaigns: online misinformation, attackers taking advantage of crises in the news, and oversharing online. Recently an industry has emerged of people selling fake vaccination […]
One of the recurring themes of these monthly updates has been the growing arsenal of methods that bad guys have at their disposal to attack us. This month brings together two of those methods: IoT devices and unverified content. IoT stands for “internet of things” and refers to all those non-computer devices that connect to […]
A number of people around the college community have seen coverage of the latest hacks on the news and have asked me, “Why do all these hacks keep happening? Can’t something be done?” There are many answers to that question. A few are below: We do A LOT to stop attacks against FIT. There is […]
Everyone has heard of “phishing” but what is “smishing” all about? “SMS” phishing attacks, also nicknamed “smishing”, are phishing messages that appear as text messages on your mobile device. Just like with email phishing attacks, the criminals masquerade as government entities, tech support representatives, financial institutions, or most recently reported: food delivery or meal kit […]
Social Media is an inescapable part of our personal and professional lives. We use career-oriented services to post articles and update resumes, and we use personal services to share family information and talk about issues of the day. LinkedIn, the career-oriented social media site, is all about building your network and accepting outreach from others. […]
We have received reports of some FIT employees receiving emails with blank subject lines or one character subject lines with no content in the body of the email. Cybersecurity researchers have reported that blank, unsolicited emails are often an early sign of a potential future phishing attack. Cyber gangs will often put feelers out to […]
The IT Division subscribes to a number of information feeds from government agencies, and details we received on April 8 from the N.J. Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC) particularly piqued our interest—for two reasons. The first was simply the topic: that the NJCCIC has observed a sharp increase in the number of ransomware attacks […]