DHS disable your Plug And Play

Jan 29, 2013 7:46:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, Jan 29 2013, the Department of Homeland Security advises computer users to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), after researchers at Rapid7 alerted DHS that hackers could ...

Most Common Motivations Behind DDoS Attacks

Jan 29, 2013 5:18:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Arbor networks Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) shows that ideology is the primary attack motivation, followed by online gaming and vandalism. Click on the graphic to go to ...

CyberheistNews vol3, #05

Jan 29, 2013 1:27:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fake Apple Invoices

Jan 23, 2013 2:57:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Internet criminals are getting more and more inventive with their social engineering attacks. Here are two examples of fake Apple invoices. The first is an example from the Sophos blog ...

CyberheistNews Vol3, #3

Jan 21, 2013 8:38:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Facebook Scams You Need To Watch Out For

Jan 19, 2013 2:21:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Facebook is loved far and wide by scammers. It's a great pool of an almost unlimited amount of victims, most of whom are gullible enough to fall for the most simple scams. Shooting fish ...

VERY Positive Beta Results Home Internet Security Course

Jan 18, 2013 8:56:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may know that we are coming out with an Home Internet Security Course for consumers. Why? When we asked the participants who finished our enterprise Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness ...

Upper Management Often Ignores IT Security Policy

Jan 17, 2013 8:16:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Over the years I have had a nagging suspicion that only today was confirmed. I ran into a study done last year done by a company called Cryptzone who interviewed 300 IT Security ...

Facebook Graph Search Is Social Engineering Bonanza

Jan 17, 2013 1:59:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Zuck has come out with something new, and you always need to watch it when that happens. It's a combination of big data and social networking so that people can easily find new friends, ...

Here are the 20 people that did the Beta first

Jan 16, 2013 6:54:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

And got their $20 Amazon Gift card sent to them today. Again, thanks very much for participating in the Kevin Mitnick Home Internet Security Training. The overall feedback was incredibly ...

Healthcare Security Awareness Training

Jan 15, 2013 5:35:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 and it's CEO Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced shower-man) were featured in For The Record Magazine, a leading publication for Healthcare. The article was about the risks of Bring Your ...

CyberheistNews vol3, #02

Jan 15, 2013 12:33:10 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week Hotmail MSN

Jan 14, 2013 3:59:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Scam Of The Week Hotmail MSN[/caption] It's a new year and you'd like to think that your users are getting smarter about clicking on ...

RUSH Do a Free $30 Internet Security Course and Get a $20 Amazon Gift Cert

Jan 11, 2013 3:39:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hi All, we have some super exciting news. Tons of the people that did our enterprise course said they had learned a bunch of scary things, and immediately asked how they could share this ...

Deloitte Study shows 88 percent thinks they are cyber threat safe

Jan 9, 2013 7:33:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Oh my. Deloite UK did a bunch of interviews with small and medium organizations which showed that a whopping 88% think they are safe and will not be attacked from the outside. Talk about ...

Scam Example: Amazon Marketplace

Jan 7, 2013 9:40:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Josh More, a Senior Security Consultant at RJS smart security was in the market for a new camera, and was almost scammed when he saw a deal on Amazon that was only $1,836.73 instead of ...

CyberheistNews vol3, #01

Jan 7, 2013 8:21:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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