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Finally, a positive outcome in a cyberheist lawsuit. Brian Krebs reported that a Professional Business Bank settled with a Village View Escrow Inc, a California cyberheist victim. A ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="390" caption="60 million Cyberheist"][/caption] This is exactly what I have been warning against in my book cyberheist. McAfee and Guardian ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="2002 Good vs. Bad"][/caption] And now a mainstream antivirus vendor is saying this too. First of all, I have no dog in this fight, ...
Brian Krebs is on a roll. Here is why pill pushing spam pays off. "Consumer demand for cheap prescription drugs sold through spam-advertised Web sites shows no sign of abating, according ...
More from Brian Krebs's astounding blog post today. "As the chart I compiled above indicates, attackers are switching the lure or spoofed brand quite often, but popular choices include ...
With the increase of email phishing attacks being the primary attack vector, ransomware payments have risen to 60%, it's important to take a closer look at email-based ransomware attacks.
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Kevin sent the folowing letter to 1,442 people that over the last 3 years filled out the his contact us form on the www.mitnicksecurity.com website. Of these, 1082 were delivered. Now, ...
From Facebook phishing lures to Twitter and Tumblr hoaxes, here are 15 scams to watch out for on social networking sites. CSO online took the time to put this slide show together and it's ...
Alastair Stevenson at the V3 site quoted Microsoft: "Cyber attacks such as Duqu, Stuxnet and Flame will inevitably hurt private companies and innocent people as well as governments, ...
Kevin Mitnick, at One Time the World's Most-Wanted Hacker, Joins Forces With Leading Internet Security Awareness Training Company KnowBe4, LLC CLEARWATER, Fla., June 18, 2012 -- Internet ...
The fake cashier's check scam has gotten more sophisticated. Cathy Bussewitz at the pressdemocrat site reported on this one: "It usually starts when a seller posts a big-ticket item on ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="LeakedIn"][/caption] Never 'check' your password. Change it! The last few weeks, it came to light that some major websites were ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Tracy Kitten"][/caption]It's not all bad news! Tracy Kitten over at BankInfoSecurity reported on a positive trend. "Banks are doing a ...
Samantha Murphy at Mashable wrote: "Shred-It conducted a survey among 1,136 U.S. small business owners with companies of fewer than 100 employees, and 100 corporate-level executives who ...
Foxnews reported on June 15, 2012: "Cyberbombs are the new atom bombs." "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned Friday that the race to build and deploy cyberweapons -- secret ...
Alan Shimel tell us an enlightening and cautionary tale how his password was hijacked and how much time it took him to get it all back under control. This is a warmly recommended read ...
The cyberweapon genie is out of the bottle, and the U.S. is engaged in a cyberwar. Now it becomes clear why the Government has been trying to get private industry to agree to certain ...
The Guardian reported that Google will warn users of 'state-sponsored' hacking: "Search giant says it will alert Gmail users about targeted attacks, in move that could aid human rights ...
LinkedIn was hacked and 6.46 million encrypted passwords have been leaked on a Russian forum. This is not good, as the encrypted passwords are relatively easy to crack. If you are using ...
Arstechnica picked up the blog post of F-Secure's Chief Research Officer: A/V outfits were out of their league. Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. He has been ...
Techcrunch wrote: "Apple has introduced a guide to iOS security, which was posted to Apple.com sometime in late May, but is just now being noticed outside the Apple developer community. ...
Redmond stated: "We recently became aware of a complex piece of targeted malware known as “Flame” and immediately began examining the issue. As many reports assert, Flame has been used in ...
F-Secure the security company based in Finland has recently cautioned that spam mails themed on the Olympics are targeting Internauts while carrying web-links to one malevolent PDF file ...
Since LinkedIn had their IPO, they have been in the news a lot more, even if only to compare them with the recent Facebook IPO Debacle. But the better known you are, the bigger target you ...
OpenDLP is a free and open source, agent- and agentless-based, centrally-managed, massively distributable data loss prevention tool released under the GPL. Given appropriate Windows, ...
"People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old. That's according to the largest ever study of password security, which also ...
TrendLabs discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives attached to email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific ...
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