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Fending off the fraudsters: how organisations can protect themselves from cyberattacks

In 2015, a senior executive at Mattel received an email from the company’s newly appointed CEO. The note requested the processing of an overdue payment to a familiar manufacturer. In acting on the email, the executive set-in motion a $3 million mistake. Cyber attacks of this kind are known as ‘whaling’ emails, which rather than the ‘copy-paste’ met...

04 May 2023 Information Security