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Daniel R. Stoller at Bloomberg Law had an excellent observation about the risks of phishing related to general crime policies. Here is a short excerpt and the whole article is warmly ...
Brad Haan sent me this riot cartoon:
Why is credentials phishing moving from consumers to the enterprise, just like ransomware has done in the last 2 years? The answer might surprise you. Elliot Volkman at the PhishLabs ...
We have some good news! The "2018 Safe Web Browsing" and "2018 Ransomware" module's 20 language versions are now better than ever. As of today, the following improvements are now present ...
Rob Wright at SearchSecurity wrote: "Proofpoint research shows that while phishing attacks now require victims to take more steps, the success rate for such attacks hasn't declined and ...
Attorneys Zuckerman Spaeder noted on JDSUPRA: "When employers are caught off guard, they can face not only the loss of their own assets, but also liability to their employees. For ...
The notorious Necurs botnet is one of the oldest and largest spam and phishing delivery systems in existence. It controls millions of machines that the criminal botmasters use to send ...
PDF files can be weaponized by malicious actors to steal Windows credentials (NTLM hashes) without any user interaction, and only by opening a file, according to Assaf Baharav, a security ...
NTT Security 2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR): Ransomware up 350% and spyware ranks first in volume of malware at 26% reflecting attackers' desire for long-term presence for ...
Researchers at Check Point and CyberInt, have discovered a new generation of phishing kit that is readily available on the Dark Web. The new kit, compiled and offered by a criminal whose ...
Another indicator that a ransomware infection is seen as a HIPAA data breach and needs to be reported. The Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) in California has three locations in ...
This is the first time that a public company gets fined by regulators for failure to properly investigate their 2014 data breach, and disclose it to shareholders. Technically this is not ...
“Double kill” is a bragging term from the world of violent video gaming – it means you finished off two assailants with a single shot. In the world of cybercrime, it’s the name given by ...
A ransomware infection has cost Dutch builder Almi Machinebouwers at least 60,000 euros. That is what director Frank Landhuis said in an interview with Sprout. Due to the infection, ...
We thought it was bad when we saw Cyren's recent analysis that 10.5% of bad emails made it through the filters. It could even be worse than that. "Mimecast's latest ESRA (email security ...
No matter how much security technology we purchase, we still face a fundamental security problem: people. Our CEO Stu Sjouwerman was interviewed by Information Security Media Group at RSA ...
The Spiceworks staff wrote: "Years after CryptoLocker raised its ugly head — setting off an unfortunate security trend — ransomware continues to be a rather painful thorn in the side of ...
