On May 3rd, we started receiving calls and emails from SBTS employees that had received a Google Docs share from the same employee. We’ll call him Patient 0. Campus Tech even received the email from Patient 0. Soon after, we received a call from Patient 0 since he was getting bombarded with replies from people such as “I tried to … Read More
How To Spot A Phishing Attempt
This past weekend, we learned that Vice President Pence had a personal AOL email account compromised while he was governor of Indiana. You can read the story in the Wired article The Golden Age of Email Hacks Is Only Getting Started. A phishing attack was used to compromise then Governor Pence’s email account. Phishing and whaling (a phishing attempt with … Read More
3 Signs Your Gmail Account Has Been Compromised
We have seen an alarming increase in the number of Google accounts compromised in the last 6 months. Often, if Google detects suspicious behavior, they will email us to let us know that they have suspended an account that they believe is compromised. Once your account is suspended, you will no longer be able to send or receive new email. … Read More