Global Payment Hack: Almost 340 Million Drop in Value

Mar 30, 2012 10:12:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Global Payment Hacked"][/caption] This is what they said in their press release: Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leader in ...

New Strategies to Fight Phishing

Mar 30, 2012 4:00:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Fighting Phishing"][/caption] BankInfo Security summarized the phishing problem for the Financial Industry, and quotes the security ...

Users are the weakest link in IT

Mar 29, 2012 5:30:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Some excellent work by our colleagues at Trend Micro. They see that users are the weakest link in IT! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="550" caption="Weakest Link in IT"][/caption]

Malicious Office documents target Mac OS X

Mar 29, 2012 3:32:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Trendmicro reported: "We have recently analyzed a series of emails sent to specific users that leverage a certain prominent socio-political issue. One of these messages is about the ...

Unique Malware Samples 2006-2011

Mar 28, 2012 6:42:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="361" caption="Malware Unique Samples"][/caption] Malware is still exploding. Check out this graph. During the last few years, the security industry ...

Video on Zeus Botnet Takedown

Mar 28, 2012 2:36:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You have probably heard about how Microsoft, the US Marshals together with some other organizations killed some some Zeus botnets. Microsoft's PR crew released a video about the operation ...

Netherlands Gets European Centre for Cybercrime

Mar 28, 2012 1:03:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Holland's capital The Hague will get a new international showpiece. The new European Centre for Cybercrime will start there early 2013. European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia ...

CyberheistNews vol 2, #14

Mar 27, 2012 9:19:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

How To Phish Your Employees

Mar 24, 2012 10:16:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I wrote a new article that is also available in the resources section on our website: More and more, the bad guys are bypassing your firewall, endpoint protection and other ...

Shield your business from cybercrooks

Mar 23, 2012 4:00:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Anne Fisher, Editor of New York's Executive Inbox wrote: "Can you recognize a potentially disastrous breach of your computer systems security when you see it? Lets find out with two ...

Look Ma, malware without files!

Mar 21, 2012 4:38:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wow, instead of an exploit dropping a file onto the file system and running it... a DLL is injected straight into memory from the exploit, leaving nothing to scan on the harddrive. Writen ...

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CyberheistNews Vol 2, #7 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Facebook Malware Scam Of The Week A "worrying number" of ...

For cloud services, security first - growth second

Mar 20, 2012 9:27:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Richard Stiennon at Forbes has a very good point. "My oft repeated advice for technology vendors is that security sells. Given a choice between two vendors of similar products or services ...

The Cridex malware trojan hides in fake LinkedIn invitations.

Mar 20, 2012 9:10:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Cridex malware trojan hides in fake LinkedIn invitations. Take care with those invites! GFI Labs recently discovered a LinkedIn email phishing scam that installs a banking trojan. It ...

Major malware gang taken down today in Russia

Mar 20, 2012 8:43:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Members of the largest criminal group engaged in online banking fraud are detained March 20, 2012 MOSCOW Group-IB, the first Russian company providing comprehensive investigation of IT ...

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Mar 19, 2012 5:00:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #6 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Facebook Malware Scam Of The Week A "worrying number" of ...

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Its Tax Scam Season

Mar 16, 2012 4:44:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Warn everyone that 'Tax Scam Season' is upon us, and that no one should respond to anything tax-related via email. The IRS does not use email or social media, don't fall for refund offers ...

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The Top 5 Executive Spear-phishing Scams

Mar 13, 2012 6:30:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We recommend you copy and paste this section, and send it to your executive team, with a warning that they might be targeted with spear-phishing attacks. They need to 'Stop, Look, Think' ...

Fake AV Attack Targets Wordpress Users

Mar 8, 2012 2:57:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Websense detected a new wave of mass-injections of a well-known rogue AV campaign. It targets websites that use the open source WordPress website content management system. Websense ...

Cost of penetration testing < cost of security incident :)

Mar 6, 2012 8:30:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Cost of a Security Incident Is Usually Much Greater Than Preventing It This is a blog post by John Pescatore, July 24, 2009, and still as valid today as it was then. "A few years ago ...

RSA Post-mortem: Massive Human Component To Security

Mar 5, 2012 2:53:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

George Hulme wrote on the CSO site: "There was an unusual level of gloom at the RSA Conference this year, and for good reason: a number of the biggest and most respected security firms ...

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