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Jan Sirmer at the Avast blog wrote: "Based on analysis of past Locky ransomware attacks, experts in the Avast Threat Labs predict that another attack is imminent. Locky has taken a ...
Wednesday Jan 4th, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned about an active phishing campaign that has malicious PDF attachments in a new scam to steal email credentials. The SANS bulletin ...
Our friends at www.Social-Engineer.org sent me some interesting news in their January newsletter: "Adobe recently announced Project VoCo at the November Adobe Max conference.
CyberheistNews | KnowBe4
Healthcare records of an Arizona clinic have not been available for months after a ransomware infection. The Desert Care clinic got infected in August, and they were not able to recover ...
Intel Security's McAfee Threat Predictions for 2017 (PDF) observes that advances in technology are essentially neutral and that developments like machine learning should be welcomed, but ...
Happy New Year! I'd like to thank all our customers for your support. 2016 has been fantastic. Our year-over-year sales increase was 298% for Q4 2016, with a record number of over 750 new ...
Breathlessly, the Washington Post reports that the Russian Grizzly Steppe malware was found within the system of a Vermont power utility. Nah, they just dodged a bullet. This time someone ...
As one of his last actions in office, President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats spies in retaliation for Russia interfering with the U.S. election process, after intelligence agencies ...
Talk about adding insult to injury with this new KillDisk version. Here is how social engineering can cost you dearly. The Sandworm cybercrime gang has upped its game. They were initially ...
I have been looking at the coming year and what trends you will probably see actually deployed in your network. These trends are the practical things that will help you to keep your ...
Today, news broke that George Michael was found dead on Sunday at his home in Goring in Oxfordshire, England. He was 53. A police statement said: “Thames Valley Police were called to a ...
In the WSJ of Dec 22, 2016 there is an article that hides the real headline. It talks about the research done by CrowdStrike which shows that the DNC hack was done by a hacker group known ...
Lynda.com, the online learning unit of LinkedIn, has reset passwords for some of its users after it discovered recently that an unauthorized external party had accessed a database ...
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Confidential health data or personal information of more than 750,000 people may have been accessed in a cyberattack on Los Angeles County employees in May that led to charges this week ...
This is getting old. It's all over the press... again. Here is a Reuters article where I am quoted, which covers the most recent billion-record Yahoo hack. Some people asked me after our ...
My Interview at CSO About Ransomware-as-a-Service Joan Goodchild, Editor-in-chief at CSO sat me down and asked why Ransomware-as-a-Service has taken off recently: "It’s not just your ...
KnowBe4, the most popular security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, and Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and data ...
A rather mind-blowing 70% of businesses hit by ransomware paid the hackers to regain access to hijacked systems and files, according to a new IBM X-Force Ransomware report. Of the ...
