I received an email to take a look at a file called Evaluation.xFile. Now normally I would ignore it and send it to the trash but the site that the file was being hosted on was sharepoint.com which is supposed to be a safe site and the contact was someone I knew. Unfortunately, that sender’s account (and mine could have been too if it had a keylogger) was compromised so basically, you had a rogue file on a safe site.

This is why VPN can be dangerous and instead, you should have the employee provide their home’s IP address so that it can be added to the allowed list to get behind the network firewall so if their account gets compromised, the most that will happen is a bunch of emails being sent out and you can have a dummy email account that if it gets mail from the attacker sending to everyone in the address book, alert to the intrusion.

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About The Author: Stephan Pringle is an Information Technology Support Specialist. He covers hardware and software and provides tips for you to troubleshoot and repair issues on your own. In his spare time, he writes articles about the State of New York on his Hackintosh and HackBook and that has helped him to become the top contributor of the New York City section of Yahoo! Answers.

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