Consequences of phishing attacks

Here's another sobering story about the consequences of clicking on a link and not really knowing what it is.
Update: seems this affects windows users too. Advice is the same!

https://healthitsecurity.com/news/350000-patients-2m-emails-exposed-in-oregon-dhs-phishing-attack

350,000 Patients, 2M Emails Exposed in Oregon DHS Phishing Attack

Nine employees of the Oregon Department of Human Services fell victim to a targeted phishing attack, breaching a trove of personal and medical data in 2 million compromised emails.

Dunedin ISIG

I've wanted to get a branch of the NZ Information Security Interest Group (NZISIG) going in Dunedin for a long time -- probably a decade. Hard to get momentum going.

Last year at Kiwicon I  got talking with Jim Cheetham and Chris Burgess. Jim had also been keen for a while, Chris  was in! So we agreed that when we got a bit of space in 2019 we'd get into gear and get ISIG up and running.

Jim's pretty organised and has taken on most of the technical load, even down to doing a logo for the group.

We've run a couple of sessions at Petridish, second Thursday of the month at 6 pm.  We've had some great presentations, it's been fun so far. We expect it to continue to be so.

I presented at the last session on some catph1shing I've been seeing with clients, just as a bit of a "this is a pain, and we need structured responses". The presentation is available here.