I briefly mentioned how easy it is to forge email sender addresses in a previous blog post that described the steps I took to determine whether a suspicious email was legitimate or a phishing attempt. In this post, we will take a deeper dive into why email sender addresses are so easy to forge and…
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Office 365 is the most popular line of digital services for businesses for a reason, but when it comes to cyberattacks, its ubiquity is creating challenges. If it seems like every week there’s a new headline about a large-scale hacking incident, it’s not a case of rampant fake news. According to the 2018 Symantec Internet Security…
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TL;DR: User Enumeration is key. Done enumerating? Do more. The classic passwords still work. Once you get some credentials, get more. Office 365 (O365) has become a trend in organizations. More and more, administrators are offloading their mail to The Cloud™. No longer are admins shackled to their Exchange servers, executing patch after patch in…
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It’s that time of year again, Merry Phishmas!! Holidays are the prime time of the year for attackers to send Phishing campaigns. Whether you are looking for the best deal on Black Friday, the best Christmas gift for that special family member, or a Holiday greeting from employees, employers, or costumers, there are plenty…
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Office 365 has an assortment of capabilities allowing both small to extremely large businesses to move their infrastructure and services to the cloud. In 2015, Microsoft introduced their “Advanced Threat Protection” functionality and has since been bolstered in 2016 and 2017 as a direct way to protect against advanced attacks. If you look at Microsoft’s…
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