{"id":7959,"date":"2011-06-22T20:51:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T00:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2021-08-03T21:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T01:34:58","slug":"cybercrime-stats-say-teachers-susceptible-to-phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/cybercrime-stats-say-teachers-susceptible-to-phishing-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Highly Susceptible To Phishing Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spam_logo-e1565386403653.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7992 size-thumbnail\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" title=\"Teachers Highly Susceptible To Phishing Attacks\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spam_logo-e1565386403653-75x64.jpg?resize=75%2C64&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Teachers Highly Susceptible To Phishing Attacks\" width=\"75\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spam_logo-e1565386403653.jpg?resize=75%2C64&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spam_logo-e1565386403653.jpg?resize=150%2C128&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/spam_logo-e1565386403653.jpg?w=243&amp;ssl=1 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a> Internet Security Awareness Training (<a title=\"Internet Security Awareness Training\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Internet_Security_Awareness_Training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISAT<\/a>) firm <a title=\"www.knowbe4.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knowbe4.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KnowBe4<\/a> has released new cybercrime statistics that identify Education as one of the most Phish-prone\u2122 industry sectors. Education is the second most susceptible sector to cybercrime ploys. <a title=\"www.darkreading.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>DarkReading<\/em><\/a> <a title=\"www.darkreading.com\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111108173516\/http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/vulnerability-management\/167901026\/security\/news\/229625400\/cybercrime-statistics-expose-five-industries-most-susceptible-to-phishing-attacks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> the percentage of companies in each sector that responded to the <a title=\"Phishing\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Phishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">phishing<\/a> emails are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Travel &#8211; 25%<\/li>\n<li>Education &#8211; 22.92%<\/li>\n<li>Financial Services &#8211; 22.69%<\/li>\n<li>Government Services &#8211; 21.23%<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"IT service management\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/IT_service_management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">IT Services<\/a> &#8211; 20.44%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KnowBe4 founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman told <em>DarkReading<\/em>,\u00a0 &#8220;<em>Our cybercrime statistics should serve as a wake-up call &#8230; Not only are these businesses at risk for financial loss through a cyberheist, but their susceptibility to phishing tactics could compromise sensitive customer data such as credit card, bank account, and social security numbers.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These findings are based on a recent <a title=\"www.knowbe4.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knowbe4.com\/fail500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">phishing experiment<\/a> KnowBe4 conducted among enterprises featured in the latest Inc. 500 and Inc. 5,000 listings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Having worked in K12 for a number of years, I saw lots of teachers and a few superintendents get caught by phishing traps, They would then complain to me why they and their organization has entered SPAM jail and then needed me to hit <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240609154518\/http:\/\/www.sorbs.net\/general\/SORBS-history.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SORBS.net<\/a> to get the mail flowing again.<\/em><\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.social-engineer.com\/one-phish-two-phish-red-phish-blue-phish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">One Phish, Two Phish, Red Phish, Blue Phish<\/a> (social-engineer.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KnowBe4&#8217;s cybercrime stats say teachers are among the most Phish-prone workers 23% of educators have responded to the phishing emails<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3045,1819,1457,171,607,608,128,612,4,3332],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-3045","tag-computer","tag-crime","tag-email","tag-financial-services","tag-identity-theft","tag-k12","tag-phishing","tag-security","tag-sorbs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132122,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions\/132122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}