How Zombie Phones Could Create a Gigantic, Mobile Botnet

Jun 27, 2013 3:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Seen "World War Z" recently? Your mobile phone might soon be infected and become a zombie.

Why Business Is Losing The War Against Cybercrime

Jun 27, 2013 9:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Price Waterhouse (PwC) and CSO Magazine just released their 2013 State of Cybercrime Survey. It shows that lack of risk awareness means companies are poorly defended. This is their 11th ...

Avoiding Dodgy Web Sites No Longer Works To Stay Safe

Jun 25, 2013 5:18:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If in the past your way to stay safe on the Web was to not visit dodgy sites like gambling, porn, piracy or other "unsafe district" locations, that strategy no longer works. Google ...

Great Video Illustrates Need For Security Awareness Training

Jun 25, 2013 10:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 26

Jun 25, 2013 9:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 26

System Administrator Appreciation Day Is Coming Soon!

Jun 24, 2013 10:51:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of an important, upcoming holiday. No, it is not the 4th of July (although that is almost here, too)... it's System Administrator Appreciation ...

Snowden Exfiltrated NSA Files On Thumb Drive

Jun 18, 2013 4:47:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It appears that Edward Snowden used a thumb drive to exfiltrate the Top Secret files documents from NSA's network. The US DoD banned the use of flash drives in 2008 after Defense systems ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 25

Jun 18, 2013 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 25

Scam Of The Week: CIA Prism Watchlist

Jun 18, 2013 9:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: CIA Prism Watchlist Just this morning, a researcher discovered an email uploaded to Virustotal called CIA's_prism_Watchlist_.eml. The content refers to Snowden, and the ...

SlideShare Puts Us On Front Page!

Jun 17, 2013 3:02:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The super popular SlideShare site has featured our Seven Social Engineering Vices slide deck on their front page for a short time. Here is what they sent me!

The Three Types Of Cyberattacks

Jun 17, 2013 9:54:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Eugene Kaspersky recently gave one of his very rare interviews. He was in Israel for a staff recruitment tour, and was quoted saying:"

Kevin And I Were on FOX TV Wednesday

Jun 14, 2013 8:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Mitnick and I were both interviewed on FOX TV about how to fight hackers, and what hackers are after these days. You will see Kevin, me, the KnowBe4 office and some of the KnowBe4 ...

New on SlideShare: The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices

Jun 13, 2013 10:11:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices blog post has been viewed well over 11,000 times and has gone viral. That's why we created a (much prettier) SlideShare version for you which you ...

New Top 10 IT Security Myths That Put You At Risk

Jun 12, 2013 11:16:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 24

Jun 11, 2013 9:08:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 24

POLL: "YOU are in IT. Is it OK what the NSA is doing?"

Jun 10, 2013 8:52:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll asked Americans if they consider the NSA's practice of obtaining telephone calls and email through secret court orders "acceptable." As the ...

Data Breach Costs: 10 Ways You're Making It Worse

Jun 10, 2013 11:14:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Inadequate response plans and poorly executed procedures caused data breach costs to rise significantly at some businesses, according to the Ponemon Institute. Mistakes, negligence and ...

Citadel 'Shutdown' Just A Microsoft PR Move

Jun 9, 2013 10:11:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It was all over the news. The Citadel botnet responsible for stealing more than 500 million dollars out of bank accounts from both individuals and organizations worldwide has been largely ...

Did China Leak Prism Deliberately?

Jun 8, 2013 10:54:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

UPDATED June 9: 16:51p - In an interview with TechCrunch, Eugene H. Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue and a noted expert in computer security observed something ...

VIDEO: They Gave Me 90 Seconds...

Jun 7, 2013 6:01:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our VP Channel asked me to record a 90-second elevator pitch why next-generation security awareness training is necessary to keep your network secure. Here it is! (pant, pant...)

46 Percent Of Hospital’S Hacked Money Gone For Good

Jun 7, 2013 1:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Chelan County Treasurer David Griffiths says Leavenworth's hospital district stands to recover less than half the $1 million stolen in an online banking theft. About $415,000 has been ...

New Fun Little Quiz: How Phish-prone Are You?

Jun 7, 2013 12:11:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We created a fun new little quiz you could send to your users!

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #23

Jun 4, 2013 9:39:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion

Jun 3, 2013 5:48:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion using spear-phising. In summary, they phished Onion employees’ Google Apps accounts via 3 separate methods. From ...

Cybercrime Targets: C-Level execs, HR managers and System Admins

Jun 3, 2013 3:10:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to a recent research of Group-IB on cybercrime, senior management is considered among most popular targets.

Interesting Infection Danger Numbers

Jun 1, 2013 10:16:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Symantec just released a white paper where they compared their product with 6 other enterprise endpoint security products. They had AV-Test do the review, and they included above graph to ...

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How Zombie Phones Could Create a Gigantic, Mobile Botnet

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Great Video Illustrates Need For Security Awareness Training

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 26

System Administrator Appreciation Day Is Coming Soon!

Snowden Exfiltrated NSA Files On Thumb Drive

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 25

Scam Of The Week: CIA Prism Watchlist

SlideShare Puts Us On Front Page!

The Three Types Of Cyberattacks

Kevin And I Were on FOX TV Wednesday

New on SlideShare: The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices

New Top 10 IT Security Myths That Put You At Risk

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 24

POLL: "YOU are in IT. Is it OK what the NSA is doing?"

Data Breach Costs: 10 Ways You're Making It Worse

Citadel 'Shutdown' Just A Microsoft PR Move

Did China Leak Prism Deliberately?

VIDEO: They Gave Me 90 Seconds...

46 Percent Of Hospital’S Hacked Money Gone For Good

New Fun Little Quiz: How Phish-prone Are You?

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #23

How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion

Cybercrime Targets: C-Level execs, HR managers and System Admins

Interesting Infection Danger Numbers

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