For this Scam Of The Week, we decided to go out on a limb and run a "What If" scenario" on an attack that we think is very likely.
(Tampa Bay, FL) January 11, 2016 --- KnowBe4 announced its explosive year over year growth of 358% for Q4 2015, with a record number of new corporate accounts and a stellar customer ...
Cybercrime has piggybacked on the extremely successful SaaS model and several strains of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) like TOX, Fakben and Radamant have appeared in 2015
Cybercrime has piggybacked on the extremely successful SaaS model and several strains of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) like TOX, Fakben and Radamant have appeared in 2015. However, a new ...
"I feel like a complete idiot. I just got taken by a LinkedIn spam that may have just stolen my banking password." These words dropped in my inbox, written a while ago by Dan Tynan, ...
I received this the last day of the year from a Director of IT Security who works at a mid-size credit union. "Stu, I think you’ll be interested in my story. If you want to share it, just ...
Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher over at our friends at Malwarebytes reported about a new, in-the-wild tech support scam that has moved from Amazon Web Services to Rackspace's ...
At the end of the year I spend a few days reading all the IT security pundit's 2016 predictions and synthesize them with my own perspective. The Crystal Ball issue is the shortest of the ...
We are excited to announce that the Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 2016 module has been released. If your subscription is current, you will see it in the Training -> ...
You are probably aware that Comcast is the largest home ISP in the U.S. and that they also have many thousands of business users. No wonder they are the target of a sophisticated social ...
You are probably aware that Comcast is the largest home ISP in the U.S. and that they also have many thousands of business users. No wonder they are the target of a sophisticated social ...
This month, Symantec researchers reported a boost in TeslaCrypt attacks, going from 200 a day to 1,800. TeslaCrypt first appeared in March 2015, and differentiated itself because many of ...
Federal regulators have hit the University of Washington Medicine with a $750,000 penalty and a corrective action plan as part of a HIPAA settlement after a 2013 malware-related breach ...
In the last few months, law enforcement has warned repeatedly about a new scam that is rapidly expanding. The FBI calls it "Business Email Compromise" (BEC), but it is better known as ...
Antivirus company Kaspersky has been monitoring ransomware pretty much from the get-go. Not surprising, as they are in Moscow and the main ransomware malware developers are Russian as ...
In the last few months, law enforcement has warned repeatedly about a new scam that is rapidly expanding. The FBI calls it "Business Email Compromise" (BEC), but it is better known as " ...
OK, this scam is widespread enough to alert your users about it. The email claims to be from Apple Support and says your Apple ID and iCloud are both going to be suspended because you did ...
OK, this scam is widespread enough to alert your users about. The email claims to be from Apple Support and both your Apple ID and iCloud are going to be suspended because you did not ...
Here's a quick condensed overview, which you can use as bullet points in your 2016 budget discussion. Today, successful data breaches happen on a daily basis. The frequency of the attacks ...
Earlier than expected - but similar to Cryptowall 3.0 - a few weeks after its release, the hated Cryptowall 4.0 ransomware is now being delivered via the Nuclear Exploit Kit (NEK), ...
