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CyberheistNews vol2, #34

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #33 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Olympics Scam Roundup The bad guys are at it again! Please ...
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Interview with Kevin Mitnick on SMB security

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="Kevin Mitnick Interview"][/caption] Kevin Mitnick was interviewed by Spiceworks' Nicholas Tolstoshev: "When Stu Sjouwerman from ...
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New Cracking Tool Released At Defcon

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Defcon Cracking Tools"][/caption] Some pretty interesting cracking tools were released this week at Defcon in Vegas. Moxie ...
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Espionage Botnets

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Espionage Botnets"][/caption] Brian Krebs just blogged about something very interesting. "A security researcher who’s spent 18 months ...
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My Book Cyberheist: 4-Star Review By Security Expert

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KnowBe4 Sponsors Front Row Tampa Bay

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Front Row Tampa Bay"][/caption] With the Republican National Convention quickly approaching in Tampa, tens of thousands of visitors ...
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CyberheistNews vol2, #33

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CyberheistNews vol2, #31

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #31 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training
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CyberheistNews vol2, #30

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CyberheistNews vol2, #29

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #29 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] 15 Social Media Scams Not just -one- Scam of the week, but a ...
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CyberheistNews vol2, #28

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CyberheistNews vol2, #26

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Scam Of The Week: Online Dating

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Online Dating Scam"][/caption] Beware, another honey trap is doing the rounds trying to snare people. Dancho Danchev was the one to ...
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Who IS This Yahoo?

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="190" caption="Dave Aitel"][/caption] A bunch of people asked me this, and sent me the link to Dave Aitel's blog post which he titled: "Why you ...
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Cyberheist Smokescreen; : Email, Phone, SMS Floods

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8 Signs You Have Been Hacked

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Security Is Not Only Training It Is Culture

We all went to school, but how would you do if you were asked to retake your finals? Neither would I. Education fades unless it is regularly reinforced. And even the reinforcement is ...
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Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Bank Sues Customer"][/caption] Tracy Kitten at BankInfo Security reported on this: "In another legal wrangling over liability linked ...
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VIDEO: The new 90-second Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training Elevator Pitch

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="455" caption="Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 90-second Video"][/caption] July 2012, KnowBe4 officially released Kevin Mitnick Security ...
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I Was Interviewed On TV Thursday

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Stu TV Interview"][/caption] Cyber threats reported by U.S. energy companies, public water districts and other infrastructure ...
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Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training"][/caption] I am super excited to officially announce we have released the new ...
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Court Ruling Could Be Boon to Cyberheist Victims

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="310" caption="Court Ruling Boon To Cyberheist Victims"][/caption] BrianKrebs reported some very good news. A decision handed down by a federal ...
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Cybercriminals Sniff Out Vulnerable Firms

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="560" caption="Small Firms Cyberheist Victims"][/caption] I could have written this headline myself. But I didn't, it was Sarah Needleman at the ...
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Cisco Cloud Calamity

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Cisco Cloud Calamity"][/caption] Cisco's Linksys marketing division got themselves soaking wet. Customers that own the Linksys E2700, ...
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Training Fragmentation Causes Knowledge Gap

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Training Fragmentation"][/caption] More and more, you see training companies promote their security awareness training products as ...
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FBI: High-tech Espionage Costs 13 Billlion

Michael Cooney over at NetworkWorld came up with a number: 13. "Driven by the general ease of stealing electronically stored data and the reality of growing global businesses, US ...
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Scam Of The Week Payroll Phish

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Payroll Phish"][/caption] The nakedsecurity blog over at Sophos highlighted a new phishing scam that would be good to alert your ...
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Malware Metastasizes

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="230" caption="Malware Metastasizes"][/caption] A few days ago I wrote about a 60 million Euro cyberheist. I have been digging into this a bit more, ...
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