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Protect your business from email compromise

Protect your business from email compromise

The Better Business Bureau Foundation and its partners recently presented a free program to local companies about how to protect themselves from business email compromise (BEC). The event was held in Omaha at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska. What is BEC? According to the FBI, BEC is a sophisticated scam targeting businesses that

By Sara Cline|2021-01-05T15:49:13-06:00May 14th, 2019|Categories: Community Engagement|Tags: BCBSNE, bec, Blue Cross, blue cross and blue shield, blue cross and blue shield of nebraska, blue cross blue shield, business email compromise, cyber security, cybersecurity, fraud, online safety, online security, prevent, scam, scammer, scammers, scams, security, social engineering, victim|Comments Off

Phishing messages: Don’t get hooked

Phishing messages: Don’t get hooked

Generally speaking, cyber criminals are fairly smart people—they usually take the path of least resistance to get their hands on whatever they want to steal. That’s why they continue to rely less on hacking computer systems, and more on something called social engineering -- especially phishing. Think of social engineering as hacking a person rather

By Thomas Kocanda|2020-10-06T16:18:12-05:00February 26th, 2018|Categories: Team Blue|Tags: email, information, online safety, online security, personal information, phishing, scam, security, sensitive information, social engineering, text|Comments Off