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Helpnet Security reported: Malware creation has broken all records during this period, with a figure of more than 15 million new samples, and more than 160,000 new samples appearing every ...
Cartoon: Parenting is very different in 2014 compared to 1989! "That ransomware payment is coming out of your allowance."
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 21
Ok, unless you were on an Internet-free vacation (fat chance); you have heard that eBay managed to lose all its 145 million credentials.
KnowBe4 will pay anyone a thousand bucks for a referral that gets us a good sales rep!
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 20
I thought you would enjoy this cartoon! LOL Stu
You may be familiar with a site called Spiceworks. They have free system admin and network management software, and their business model is advertising to the hundreds of thousands that ...
Today, in the Wall Street Journal, an article told the story of a software product called blackshades that experts call a "rat" (Remote Access Trojan) which was commercially sold to cyber ...
This could be a very expensive scam to fall for, so keep on reading.
Microsoft to XP: "You Are Dead To Us". This week, Redmond reminded all of us still running XP that we would not receive security updates on Patch Tuesday or any future patches of any kind.
Applying Engineering Values to IT Security. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing new cybersecurity standards based on the same principles engineers use to ...
You have heard me talk about whitelisting the last few years. Well I have some news! You may not know that most of us here at KnowBe4 are ex-antivirus people who came from the Sunbelt ...
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 19
Ready to be hit upon by the likes of Anna Chapman? MI5 in the UK warned that foreign spy agencies are targeting IT workers within big organizations as a means of gaining privileged access ...
Rob Rachwald and Zheng Bu at FireEye came up with some interesting observations: "At FireEye, we look at hundreds of malware samples daily, and, in a recent talk at RSA Conference, Zheng ...
The bad guys use social engineering to make end-users click on links, and their scams rely mostly on exploiting trust. If they can make you believe a message is from a trusted source, ...
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 18
An article in the Wall Street Journal of May 5, 2014 summarized what I have been talking about these last few years. 25 years ago, Symantec was one of the first IT security companies to ...
