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Remember the CRYSIS ransomware? The attacks started up again, mostly targeting US healthcare orgs. using brute force attacks via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The number of attacks has ...
A study by the World Bank stated that Russia boasts more than 1 million software specialists involved in research and development. Russian illegal cyber warriors are among the most ...
Today, we are introducing a new training method that IT managers can use to better manage the continually increasing social engineering threats. Social Engineering Indicators (SEI) turns ...
Kaspersky warned on their blog: "People are downloading a new app, looking to get free access to Netflix accounts. What they’re actually getting is a malware strain called Netix that ...
More than 1,000 government computer systems shut down. A county in Ohio, US, has had to shut down its entire IT infrastructure due to a ransomware infection. County Auditor Mike Smith ...
I have talked about CEO fraud here many times — e-mail attacks spoofing the boss and social engineering a high-risk employee into wiring funds to a bank account controlled by the bad ...
Whoa Nellie. Just when you thought that spam was on its way out, Cisco’s 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report shows the opposite. Spam is making a surprising comeback as a threat to your ...
And another one. You have to watch it, the tax scam season is back in full swing. Full W-2 information including SSN# for more than 1,400 employees who worked over the past year at ...
WICHITA, Kansas - A Georgia man has been arrested on federal charges he carried out an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County $566,000. George S. James, 48, Brookhaven, Ga., is ...
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Russian authorities have arrested Sergei Mikhailov, deputy chief at the FSB's Information Security Center (CDC), and Kaspersky exec Ruslan Stoyanov on charges of treason. Mikhailov has ...
In New York, a new cybersecurity regulatory regime will go into effect March 1st 2017. The proposed cybersecurity regulation, known as 23 NYCRR 500, has grabbed the attention of companies ...
The number of ransomware attacks quadrupled in 2016 and are expected to double again in 2017, according to findings in a report from large insurer Beazley. They suggested that ...
The Police Department in Cockrell Hill, Texas released in a press release that they lost 8 years worth of evidence after the department's server was infected with ransomware.
The new Spora ransomware strain has now been dissected by more malware researchers and the team from G Data discovered that Spora uses an "innovative" way to spread itself via USB sticks. ...
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We all had the nagging suspicion that antivirus is not cutting it anymore, but the following numbers confirm your intuition. I have not seen more powerful ammo for IT security budget to ...
