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This is a great whitepaper you can download for free at Microsoft written by IT Security Guru Roger Grimes. Here is the Executive Summary: "Many companies do not appropriately align ...
*|CyberHeistNews|* CyberheistNews Vol #5 #41 Sept 29, 2015 KnowBe4 Got A CEO Fraud Phishing Attack. Wrong Mark! KnowBe4 has been warning against "CEO Fraud" emails for a few months now, ...
The criminal gangs that live off ransomware infections are targeting Small Medium Business (SMB) instead of consumers, a new Trend Micro Analysis shows. The reason SMB is being targeted ...
The Miami County Communication Center’s administrative computer network system was compromised with a CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware infection which locked down their 911 emergency center. ...
Last Friday, after years of data breaches by Chinese hackers, many months of negotiations and occasional threats from the White House, while China's President Xi was in DC, the U.S. and ...
Casper Manes at GFI wrote a great blog post that I'm crossposting here. Welcome back to our series for people looking to break into the Infosec field or just learn more about information ...
KnowBe4 has been warning against "CEO Fraud" emails for a few months now, the FBI also calls them "Business Email Compromise" (BEC). I had been hoping we would get one of these ourselves, ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #40 Sept 22, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Deceptive Amazon Account Threat Seeing the fact that Amazon is the World's largest retailer it's surprising that there aren't ...
A new survey done by Kaspersky with participation of 5,500 companies in 26 countries finally shows the real cost of a data breach broken out by Small and Medium Business (SMB) and ...
BitPay lost $1.8 million in a phishing attack late last year, according to lawsuit filed by the bitcoin payment processing firm against an insurer it is trying to get to cover some of the ...
Seen the fact that Amazon is the World's largest retailer it's surprising that there aren't more of these scams, but this one sticks out as particularly deceptive. Often cyber criminals ...
The FBI recently warned against a new cyber crime wave. It's called "CEO Fraud" where cybercriminals impersonate your CEO using your own spoofed domain name, and order employees to ...
In a presentation at the Intelligence & National Security Summit, Bill Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) announced "There have been just ...
I was very happy to see that NPR has jumped on a story I have been trying to get out for a while. John Ydstie has a new example, where he shows the incredible hassle and disappointment ...
*|CyberHeistNews|* CyberheistNews Vol #5 #39 Sept 15, 2015 Expert Russians Hackers Use Satellites To Hide Amazing Exploits Ouroboros, one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking groups ...
WASHINGTON–In a presentation at the Intelligence & National Security Summit, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) announced a "new ...
Ouroboros, one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking groups with close ties to the Russian government, has been accused of hijacking unencrypted commercial satellite communications. ...
Hackers infiltrated the Pentagon food court's computer system, compromising the credit and debit card info of an unknown number of employees. Lt. Col. Tom Crosson, a Defense Department ...
Your Android device's lock screen PIN keeps your phone's contents safe, but not from a new strain of ransomware which hijacks your phone or tablet. Security researchers at ESET discovered ...
In 2015 U.S. organizations are seeing a significant spike in hacking incidents. Over 122 Million records breached just from hacking alone. That is not counting all of the other incidents ...
The Internet of Things is far from secure. Don't trust me, just check the FBI, they are getting worried about this too. I have talked about hacks of Internet enabled devices before, ...
Cybercrime has not given up on ransomware just yet. In fact, it's expanding as different Eastern European mafias are competing with each other for market share in this segment. Here are ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #38 Sept 1, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Drowned Syrian Boy Lowlifes are exploiting the recent picture of three-year-old Syrian boy Alyan Kurdi. He drowned while ...
Here is a cyberheist subscriber who sent me their own hacking horror story. "Stu, thought I’d give you one. You can use it if you want. Just make it anonymous. So, being in IT we think we ...
The Office of Personnel Management has just closed a 133 million dollar contract to protect 21.5 million OPM data breach victims for three years. Wow, "Barn, Horse" anyone? This is an ...
September 3rd, 2015 - KnowBe4 had the grand opening of our new facility in Tampa Bay, Florida. The 15,000 square foot top floor has a wrap-around 360 panoramic view of the Gulf of Mexico ...
CyberheistNews Vol 5 #37 Sept 1, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Business Email Compromise Last week, the FBI via their Internet Crime Complaint Center announced some astounding numbers, worse ...
