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W-2 phishing season is just a few weeks away. For the past several tax seasons, cyber criminals have used sophisticated social engineering tactics to dupe hundreds of payroll and HR ...
The multi-millionaire founder of Twynam Agricultural Group Pty Ltd. lost $1 million in an email fraud, a London court heard Thursday. The British man who facilitated the theft says he’s a ...
Researchers at Secureworks report Trojan malware is being distributed in phishing emails using the lure of a fake job ad. A prolific cyber criminal gang with links to North Korea is ...
Aggregated results show 10.5% average rates at which enterprise email security systems miss spam, phishing and malware attachments. Here is a summary of findings of email security systems ...
Cybercriminals are successfully and consistently exploiting human nature to accomplish their goals. Employee training is tied as the third-most-effective method (higher than antivirus) of ...
A previously unknown ring of Russian-speaking hackers has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks in the last 18 months, according to a Moscow-based cyber-security firm ...
Databreaches.net has forums and one of their posts really got our attention. It was an official notification from the legal department of Boise Cascade Company in Utah about a phishing ...
Attackers behind this form of file-encrypting malware - which has similarities with Locky - think that if the victim can set their own price, they're more likely to pay. A form of ...
A hacker’s 1 p.m. deadline to pay $23,000 passed Wednesday, and Mecklenburg County has not decided whether to pay the ransom for a cyber-attack that “paralyzed” the county. County manager ...
David Patriakos's new book about cyber warfare is a fascinating read. From the back cover: "Modern warfare is a war of narratives, where bullets are fired both physically and virtually. ...
A customer just sent us this: "Stu, the company who processes payments for Duke Energy’s walk in payments was hacked and as a result about 375,000 bank accounts may have been stolen. "We ...
Kon Leong at Harvard Business Review wrote an excellent article about the problem of employees exposing your organization to cyberthreats through human error. Here is a short qoute:
WIRED wrote: "A MASSIVE EFFORT to encrypt web traffic over the last few years has made green padlocks and "https" addresses increasingly common; more than half the web now uses internet ...
Our friends at Bleepingcomputer reported on something that should cause anyone concern. German security researcher Sabri Haddouche has discovered a set of vulnerabilities that he ...
I'm extremely pleased to tell you we have won a prestigious award. Frost & Sullivan is a global research and consulting firm and they recently announced that we received their 2017 ...
Scammers are pushing out fake PayPal emails that use the premise of an unverified transaction to phish for customers’ personal and financial information. With the end-of-the-year holidays ...
I have talked about this potentially extremely expensive and very disappointing "CEO fraud" or "Business Email Compromise" problem many times before. Your cybercrime policy may not ...
The NTT Security Global Threat Intelligence Center (GTIC) 2017 Q3 Threat Intelligence Report provides a glimpse inside the research conducted by NTT Security researchers over the last ...
You're always better off getting apps from reputable stores like Google Play than you are from potentially dodgy, at best unknown, third-party sites. But even Google Play isn't immune ...
