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Voice Phishing Is the New Front Door
- Technology
What would you do if your phone rang and the caller ID showed your own company? Would you pick up? Would you help the person on the other end? This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Ron goes solo to break down a breach that started with that exact call. Attackers spoofed Astrana Health’s main corporate phone number, posed as coworkers, and talked their way into systems connected to roughly 1.5 million patients. Ron starts with a rewind from phone books to data brokers, including a live search on a people-search site that turned up his own family. From there he...
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What if your phone ring right now and your caller ID shows that your company's calling? It's someone from IT and they're asking you to do something that is time sensitive. Are you going to trust that person if your caller ID shows that it's from your company? A healthcare company with a million and a half patients just got breached.
The attackers, the hackers really, they didn't hack their way in, they talked their way in. caller ID is not caller identity. If someone calls you and asks for anything sensitive, whether it be a password, a code or remote session, hang up and just call the number back. It may feel rude to do that, but it's not rude. It's your job.
What's going on, Hacker Valley fam? Welcome back to the show. It's your host, Ron Eddings. And I have a question for you. What if your phone ring right now and your caller ID shows that your company's calling. It's someone from IT and they're asking you to do something that is time sensitive. Are you going to trust that person if your caller ID shows that is from your
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