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You may not be aware that the Wall Street Journal recently created a separate WSJ Pro Cybersecurity newsletter in the form of a regular email with relevant news. Of course I subscribed to ...
Gadi Evron is the Founder and CEO at IT security company Cymmetrica. He wrote a long-ish post on hackernoon (which is powered by Medium). I'm giving you the upshot, but first, what is ...
How weak are your user’s passwords? Are they... P@ssw0rd? Verizon's recent Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords. ...
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For the third time now, the experts at AV-TEST examined a large number of the security software applications on the market in terms of how well they protect themselves. The focus was on ...
Business Insider just wrote: "Warren Buffett sees cyber attacks as a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. "I'm very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally ...
KnowBe4 gets thousands of phishing attacks reported weekly through our free Phish Alert Button, and we pick the 10 most tricky ones, defang them, and put these into a phishing campaign ...
There is no better budget ammo for new-school security awareness training than this. Attempts at cyber wire fraud, using spoofed email to impersonate a C-level executive or trusted ...
Russian organized cybercrime now has a surprising method of determining how much to ask for – the Big Mac index from The Economist. Security firm Recorded Future blogged that in March, a ...
By Laura DiDio, Principal at ITIC, a research and consulting firm based in the Boston area. “We have met the enemy and it is us.” This quote aptly describes the current state of security ...
Think Before You Click On Random Google Doc Invitation Links A very convincing Google Docs phishing scheme raced through the internet yesterday, looking like it came from someone you ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Cybercriminals held a Providence law firm hostage for months by encrypting its files and demanding $25,000 in ransom paid in Bitcoin to restore access, according to a ...
We have been reporting on this massive Cyberheist for a while now, but Fortune Magazine decided to unleash their investigative reporters and find out exactly who those two mysterious ...
America was the victim of 34 percent of global ransomware infections in 2016. The "why" is clear; a whopping 64 percent of Americans are willing to pay to get their files back, as opposed ...
The threat of ransomware has never been more real. In fact, 2016 was a record year. Here are some scary statistics from the past year put together by the folks at Barkly: Nearly 50 ...
US military contractor Northrop Grumman notified their employees that hackers managed to gain access to their W-2 tax records. As The Register just reported, the makers of America’s ...
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — . The City of Newark’s computer system has been disabled by hackers demanding thousands in ransom money, according to a published report. Hackers are demanding ...
New York, April 25, 2017 - Beazley, a pioneer in cyber and data breach response insurance, today released its Beazley Breach Insights – April 2017 findings based on its response to client ...
The French presidential election has been hit with a case of déjà vu. Emmanuel Macron's campaign said its staff received phishing emails meant to steal their passwords. Trend Micro said ...
