[caption id="attachment_884" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="cyberheists"] [/caption] Social engineering, called phishing, happens all the time. Phishing leads to cybercrimes of ...
[caption id="attachment_876" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Social Engineering"][/caption] With the advent of social media websites like Skype, Facebook and Twitter, business ...
It was great to read that the "Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011" was recently introduced in the US Senate. The purpose of the bill is to raise the public's security awareness, ...
A phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in April 2011 indicates a record number of unique domain names were used for phishing attacks in the second half of ...
The FBI reported this week that between March 2010 and April 2011, cyberthieves drained approximately $20 million from the accounts of US-based small to medium enterprises (SMEs) via ...
This morning the news is ablaze with reports of a hack into Sony's PlayStation Network, with numerous media outlets proclaiming that as many as 77 million customer accounts have been ...
I just read a fascinating interview with security maven Tim Rohrbaugh, VP for Information Security at Intersections Inc. Intersections is a provider of branded and customized identity ...
[caption id="attachment_754" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Cyberheist"] [/caption] Cyberheist the book has arrived! The Kindle edition is currently selling on Amazon for ...
[caption id="attachment_747" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="cybercrime site"][/caption] I wanted to bring to your attention another major cyberheist scheme that is making news. It ...
ISAT is pronounced "Eye sat", and stands for Internet Security Awareness Training. It's our bread and butter here at KnowBe4.com, so it's something we like to communicate about regularly, ...
Every April, Symantec publishes its Internet Security Threat Report for the preceding year. This month, the company released the latest item in that series entitled " Symantec Internet ...
In the wake of the recent Epsilon e-mail hack, I came across a CNN article " Mobile users more vulnerable to e-mail phishing scams." In that story the reporter, Amy Gahran, asserts the ...
Brian Krebs is a former reporter on the information security beat for The Washington Post who now runs his own Website KrebsOnSecurity.com in Northern Virginia. IN a recent (4/8/2011) ...
Internet.com is a respected information technology publication that's been active on the Web since the late 1990s. Their spin-off Website SmallBusinessComputing.com is a great source for ...
A recent study entitled "The 2011 Business Banking Trust Study" reports that three of every four small and midsized businesses that experienced banking fraud in the previous year incurred ...
Epsilon is one of the world's largest customer outreach e-mail companies, and generates legitimate traffic on behalf of a number of very large companies (see Table 1 below). Epsilon ...
Look what just showed up in my colleague's e-mail inbox this morning: I wrote in moderate detail about Trusteer in a blog post right here entitled " Cyberheist Snippet 4: More on Trusteer ...
Ventura County, California, is a small small county (population: 802,983 according to 2009 numbers from the US Census Bureau) north of the greater Los Angeles area. According to a March ...
In a recent 3/23/2011 article entitled " Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent Websites; Traced to Iran," Wired Threat Level reports on a spectacular cyberheist of credentials ...
