Hackers have the ability to connect stolen phone records to specific people and companies. They then use this information to initiate sophisticated social engineering attacks that prey on your emotions, such as fear.

Posted On 10.01.24, by i2m_adm

This month’s customer satisfaction score:99.2%

“Adriana is always responsive and professional. A pleasure to work with her as always.”

SAT with Ninjio

How will Security Awareness Training be different with Ninjio?

Next month, i2m will start sending Security Awareness Trainings from Ninjio. We have sent trainings from Ninjio before, but we’ve decided to partner with them exclusively because of their comprehensive approach to SAT.
Some of the new features we have access to on behalf of our clients are: The ability to add family members to Security Awareness Trainings; options to do role-based training; more specific reporting on who is taking the trainings.
Ninjio also groups trainings by common emotional vectors. Because emotional manipulation is an integral feature of social engineering, Ninjio has designed their training program to be grouped by emotion so that we can collect data on who may need support in particular areas of social engineering.
As part of the training program, we also send you controlled phishing attempts to see if you will fall for the bait. Because of the emotional vectors and data collection, we can use the Ninjio platform to send phishing attempts that are more tailored to you and where you might need extra practice.
Ultimately, our goal is for all of our clients to be savvy tech users! We are hoping that our new partnership with Ninjio will be beneficial to all of you and help you to avoid the pitfalls of hackers and scams.

From our Engineers

What is a Registration Bomb Attack?

Recently, one of our clients was hit with a Registration Bomb Attack. This is when a bad actor uses a bot to sign your email up to perfectly safe newsletters and email feeds at such a high rate your inbox gets overloaded with new mail.

Most often, the intention of these emails to mask attacks on legitimate accounts that you have. For instance, if you have a thousand new emails from a ton of brands, you may not notice that in those thousand emails, someone used your Amazon account to purchase a bunch of things. It creates a needle in a haystack situation.

If you are ever presented with this situation – look out for any emails about password resets. If the reset didn’t come from you, go to the website (not through your email!) and reset your password. Also – send a ticket to the Help Desk! We can help conrm what is going on and give you additional tips.

Hackers have the ability to connect stolen phone records to specific people and companies. They then use this information to initiate sophisticated social engineering attacks that prey on your emotions, such as fear.

This month’s customer satisfaction score:99.2%

SAT with Ninjio

How will Security Awareness Training be different with Ninjio?

From our Engineers

What is a Registration Bomb Attack?

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