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- Effective eBilling Solutions for Law Firms
- Increase Profitability and Free Up Billable Time by Optimizing Your Cash Cycle
- Is Your Backup Protecting Your Firm’s Data? 4 Critical Aspects of a Successful Disaster Recovery Plan
- Looking Ahead While Looking Back: Best Practices Road Map for A/R in 2023
- Maintaining A/R Stability During Crisis Instability
- Mobile Devices & Social Media – Discovery Considerations for ESI Preservations
- Optimizing the Client Intake to Cash Process: Best Practices to Maximize Firm Profits
- People, Process, and Technology in a Work from Home Environment
- Ransomware Realities
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Phishing Protection for Law Firms’ Staff to Identify and Avoid Scams in 2023
The beginning of the new year is all about goal setting and making resolutions, including those that will improve IT at your law firm. Many of our clients use the new year as a time to evaluate their cybersecurity preparedness and data management processes. Law firms are a prime target for hackers. According to the ABA, 1 out of every 4 law practices has been a victim of a data breach.
Another study led by a prominent security firm and Stanford University professor found that nearly 90% of law firm security breaches are inadvertent, unintentional, and caused by human error. This data coincides with increasingly sophisticated phishing scams, which are most commonly deployed by cybercriminals against law firms.
What is Phishing?
A phishing scam is a fraudulent message, often an email, text message, or phone call, that is intended to trick the recipient into disclosing sensitive information. Phishing emails usually request the recipient follow a link, send a payment, reply with private info, or open an attachment.Phishing Protection for Law Firms Starts With Identifying Phishing Types
Phishing scams come in many shapes and sizes. Spear phishing is a targeted attack where the attacker researches the victim and creates a customized phishing email. On a mobile phone or tablet, the sender’s email address is not readily apparent, which makes it easier for people to be tricked and fall prey to spear phishing emails. Domain spoofing occurs when an attacker appears to use a company’s domain to impersonate a company executive or one of its employees. Hackers will even go as far as developing fake websites to trick users. SMS phishing or “smishing” involves text messages purporting to be from reputable companies that request recipients reveal personal information, such as passwords or credit card numbers.How Law Firms Can Spot Phishing Scams
Phishing scams can be well-disguised and hard to spot. However, they often include the following elements.- Threats or sense of urgency
- Suspicious attachments
- Poor grammar or misspellings
- Pop-up windows with valuable offers for little cost
- E-mail address or domain name inconsistencies