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If you are an organization that uses Microsoft Office 365 as your email platform, be on the lookout for a new tricky phishing attack recently used by cyber criminals. Microsoft has issued an alert to its customers warning them of the new attack, which merits mention to your users.

The phishing scheme is designed to…

Sales and marketing professionals in companies are usually energetic, vivacious and creative. That’s what makes them so good at their jobs. But it’s also these excitable folks who can get companies in trouble when it comes to the Do Not Call List and the Truth in Caller ID Act.

In addition to the Telephone Consumer…

It is amazing how much information about a company and its executives and employees can be gleaned from spending a little time on the web.

Marketing teams of companies are focused on capturing the mentions of the company in traditional media outlets in order to promote it through social media. They also are focused on…

It used to be that caller ID was a helpful tool to determine whether the person on the other end of the line was someone you knew. If the caller ID came up as unknown, you could decide not to answer the phone. Sometimes a call might come in and you don’t recognize the actual…

In a recent Public Service Announcement dated February 21, 2018 entitled “Increase in W-2 Phishing Campaigns,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) issued another alert about an increase in phishing campaigns since the beginning of 2018.

According to the FBI, “IRS’s Online Fraud Detection & Prevention (OFDP), which monitors for suspected IRS-related phishing emails,…

This article co-authored with guest blogger David Wang, a R+C summer associate and student at Boston College Law School

Wire fraud crime has long been a problem for financial institutions and banks. However, wire fraud through email is a completely different beast. Originally characterized by law enforcement as an extension of traditional wire fraud, wire…