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The Wall Street Journal is getting the message. They said : "For companies concerned about the soaring number of ransomware attacks–in which hackers take control of data or systems and ...
It was all over the news. A sustained DDoS attack that caused outages for a large number of Web sites Friday was launched with the help of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. Jeff ...
Researchers at RapidityNetworks discovered a new malicious worm using Telnet that infects IoT devices using their insecure default credentials and uses a peer-to-peer network to install ...
Michael Gillespie tweeted: "Whew! ID #Ransomware can now identify 200 ransomware families. :) Sad such a milestone was hit so quickly..." He added a list from the malwarehunterteam site, ...
Motherboard has a great article explaining just how Podesta, Chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign got hacked. (Podesta previously served as Chief of Staff to ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Yesterday one of our customers was hit with a highly targeted phishing attack -- one of the slicker attacks we've seen in a while. Once we ...
I'm noticing a lot of people saying the ransim.exe file is getting blocked by your AV. You have to actually allow the initial processes to run to do the simulation. It is the five test ...
A new ransomware strain written in Python called CryPy was disclosed by Avast malware analyst Jakub Kroustek. It seems that Pyton is getting more popular as a ransomware development ...
The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon's lawyers are looking at using the "material adverse clause' to renegotiate the terms of the $4.8 billion deal they struck on July. Verizon’s ...
Nearly half of ransomware attacks are aimed at office workers, but almost two-thirds of those polled are unaware of the threat More than 60% of US office workers are unaware of ransomware ...
The divorce between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has been used by the bad guys for a "celebrity death hoax" which unfortunately is high-grade click bait. It's the most recent one to hit ...
Business Insider started an article with the following: "Imagine you've got a meeting with a client, and shortly before you leave, they send you over a confirmation and a map with ...
CSO had an excellent article that states the case that you need to get rid of old-school awareness training which you do for compliance reasons only. Their photo illustration was funny as ...
There is a new insidious IRS scam that you need to warn your employees, friends and family about, and inform your HR department to start with. Seasoned internet criminals are sending ...
(Tampa Bay, FL) October 9, 2016 --- KnowBe4 is excited to announce we were able to beat our stellar Q2, and maintain our explosive year over year growth, Q3 2016 being 369% over Q3 2015. ...
I have been knee deep into Ransomware since September 2013 when the granddaddy of modern ransomware CryptoLocker made well over 20 million bucks in a few months. But sometimes I learn ...
Eric Chabrow over at the Government Info Security blog found an interesting post by Stuart Coulson, who is a director of a hosting provider in the U.K. Coulson wrote a somewhat longish ...
