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This Weeks Helpful Tips (10/10/2023)

Security Harness Group Blog Newsletter

Seneca Allen

Tuesday, October 10 2023

We've seen a lot of spoofed emails in the last few months and gotten a lot of tickets for us to check them out. These are easily recognizable because the email address never comes from who it claims. As a reminder, when determining whether an email is legitimate or not, always check the actual email address and not just the name associated with it. Any name can be associated with an email address, but no 2 users on earth can have the exact same email address. Here is an example that we received this morning. If you check, the email address will almost never match the name that you see (in this case, Harness | System Notification). THIS IS A PHISHING EMAIL FOR CREDENTIAL HARVESTING. YOU WILL NEVER RECEIVE AN EMAIL FROM US OR MICROSOFT STATING THAT YOUR PASSWORD WILL EXPIRE AND TO CLICK IN ORDER TO KEEP IT:

Here you can see that the name does not match the email address; has been compromised and bad actors are using her email address to send out phishing emails from a legitimate address, hoping that the recipient won't pay attention to the email address and only the name:
We receive a lot of support requests about how to use some of the features in Microsoft OneDrive, and Kevin Stratvert, a former Microsoft employee, makes great videos about many of the helpful features in all of their software applications. Click the link below to watch a video from Kevin Statvert that contains some helpful OneDrive tips; the video is broken up in to sections, so you can watch the entire thing, or go to the video notes and jump to the sections that interest you the most:

https://youtu.be/prA75mu3arc?si=EqxN9Yg-_XBHSpMX

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Seneca Allen

Seneca is a technology enthusiast and nerd at heart. His passion is solving problems and seeing businesses work at their highest efficiency. He loves it when a plan comes together.

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