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Resource – Protect yourself from phishing

Phishing (pronounced: fishing) is an attack that attempts to steal your money, or your identity, by getting you to reveal personal information -- such as credit card numbers, bank information, or passwords ...
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PHISHING ATTACKS SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE ALMOST OVERNIGHT

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ALERT FROM THE SHRING SUPPORT SERVICES TEAM We have seen a huge uptick in spear-phishing attack attempts globally. Some group(s) are mounting large-volume attacks utilizing phishing...
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phishing scam

PHISHING? What the?

What's this all about and why should I be worried about it? Phishing has become the current choice of attacks that hackers use to gain entry to restricted networks. Most...
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Scam Alert – Malicious DropBox Emails

Heads up .. this is important! We are sending this alert to all our customers reminding you to be extremely diligent when receiving this warning. We all know that historically...
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Alert – Comcast/Xfinity Phishing Email Scam

Heads Up! We are seeing a scary email attempting to pass through our ShringMail platform that is malicious and we wanted you to be aware of it as it is passing...
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Digital “Spring Cleaning” Checklist

As Spring approaches, it's time to take a few minutes and cleanup your "digital self" a good cleaning as well. While it certainly would be nice for this to be...
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CryptoWall Infection via PDFs

A newly detected drive-by attack encrypts files and documents then demands payment to decrypt data. PDF-based malware being found embedded in legit PDF files. Meaning they have been modified after...
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Alert – Google Docs Phishing Scam

Heads Up! Google Docs Phishing Scam Making It's Way Around We are seeing a large amount of malicious Google Docs emails being recieved.This is not coming from Google but others...
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firefox scam

This is NOT a legit Firefox Update!

No ... this is not a legit FireFox update! Recently we have run into quit a few customers who use Mozilla Fiefox as their primary browser. While definitely not new...
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Alert – Fake RingCentral Emails

We are sending out this quick alert to our customers who use RingCentral as their voice platform. Malicious emails are being sent to RingCentral customers that are formatted to look...
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