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It's actually not even that complicated, they do it from a phishing email with a company employee... They don't even need to compromise the mailbox.
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It's actually not even that complicated, they do it from a phishing email with a company employee... They don't even need to compromise the mailbox.

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I've heard hackers can launch a 'CEO fraud' spear phishing attack on an organization. &nbsp;What does this mean and how can a person/team prevent this?
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I've heard hackers can launch a 'CEO fraud' spear phishing attack on an organization.  What does this mean and how can a person/team prevent this?

What is CEO Fraud?

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.

Security

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program in the category of groupware environments used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions may internally act as an email client; as a whole, it is commonly referred to as webmail. Likewise, email client may be referred to a piece of computer hardware or software whose primary or most visible role is to work as an email client. Email clients can also have other systems, like calendars, notes and contact managers.

Email Clients

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions is sometimes also considered an email client, but more commonly referred to as webmail.