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Perry Carpenter, former Research Director, Security & Risk Management and esteemed analyst at Gartner, has joined KnowBe4 as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer. As the provider of ...
Check Point Software blogged about Chinese hackers who have taken smishing to the next level, using a rogue cell phone tower to distribute Android banking malware via spoofed SMS messages.
It was all over the press. Initially reported by Bleepingcomputer and picked up by sites like Endgadget, they all went gaga over a new technique that allows the bad guys to take over your ...
More than 4,000 ransomware attacks occur daily and healthcare is the largest target. However, despite disclosure requirements and the risk of late or no HIPAA notification at all, breach ...
4/28/2017 UPDATE: Facebook and Google confirmed as victims of $100M phishing scam. Story at The Verge. In an update on an earlier post of April 2016, more detail came known about this ...
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There was some good news reported in Mandiant's M-Trends 2017 report, but this was heavily outweighed by a lot of very bad news. Mandiant, which is a Fireye company, found that in 2016 ...
A single click was all it took to launch one of the biggest data breaches ever. One mistaken click. That's all it took for a Canadian hacker aligned with rogue Russian FSB spies to gain ...
There is a wave of W-2 phishing attacks going on. We see these coming in through thousands of reported scam attempts via our Phishing Alert Button. The FBI and the IRS have repeatedly ...
Kasperky researchers discovered a new variant of last year's Petya Master File Table (MFT) ransomware, with "new and improved" crypto and ransomware models. Remember, MFT ransomware only ...
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A newly filed Schedule A proxy statement at the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Verizon requested a discount of 925 million dollar off the original 4.83 billion purchase ...
A sophisticated phishing attack is trying to get confidential corporate information. Bad guys are sending spoofed emails claiming to be from the Security and Exchange Commission, and ...
Danny Palmer at ZDNet reported on a new scheme for aspiring cyber criminals that lets them into the ransomware racket for free, but at a steep 50/50 split with the people that provide ...
Cisco has a separate threat research group called Talos. They just published a report on a scary new form of malware that’s hard to detect. They called it DNSMessenger, and the malicous ...
BankInfoSecurity wrote: "Ninety percent of data breaches seen by Verizon's data breach investigation team have a phishing or social engineering component to them. Not coincidentally, one ...
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Steven Weisman, Esq. warned against this scam and wrote March 5th: "Mystery shoppers are people hired to shop at a particular store and report on the shopping experience for purposes of ...
We all thought that evil genius Evgeniy Bogachev had retired at the Black Sea with his tens of millions of ill-gotten gains after he became the FBI's #1 Most Wanted cybercriminal. Well, ...
The Cybersecurity 500 / Q1 2017 list of the world's hottest security companies was officially released yesterday, Mar. 1. In their "Movers and Shakers" section they stated: "KnowBe4 is a ...
