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Today, news broke that Prince Rogers Nelson was found dead in his home in Minneapolis at age 57. He was found unresponsive in an elevator and was declared dead shortly after. He performed ...
It's the old story. A disaster strikes and 24 hours later you get emails with urgent request for help as hundreds of wounded victims need food, water and shelter. And the bad guys are at ...
CyberheistNews Vol 6 #16 FBI: "Ransomware On Pace To Be A 1 Billion Dollar Business In 2016" CNN Money reports about new estimates from the FBI show that the costs from ransomware have ...
Ransomware attacks cause downtime, data loss, possible intellectual property theft, and in certain industries a ransomware attack is now looked at as a possible data breach. Ransomware is ...
A mysterious update in the behavior of the CTB-Locker ransomware strain alerted security researchers to pull some strings and see what was going on. The CTB-Locker ransomware family, ...
CNN Money reports about new estimates from the FBI that show the costs of ransomware have reached an all-time high this year. Threat actors made $209 million in the first quarter of 2016 ...
OK, here is great ammo to get more IT security budget. Why? This article and infographic make it real to the C-suite that they themselves have a big phishing target on their back. You all ...
An as yet unknown American company fell victim to nearly $100 million in CEO Fraud. Employees were social engineered by spoofed emails that claimed to be one of its legitimate vendors, ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. A few days ago our friends at BleepingComputer.com announced the discovery of a new form of ransomware, which they dubbed Jigsaw ...
Pinellas County resident Scott Germak thought he was getting free Tampa Bay Rays tickets based on a phishing email that appeared to be a legitimate message coming from GTE Financial, his ...
Cisco's Talos Labs researchers had a look into the future and described how ransomware would evolve. It's a nightmare. They created a sophisticated framework for next-gen ransomware that ...
We have several cool new features in the Spring 2016 release! These features were previously out of reach for IT managers with limited budget, and we're excited you can use them now with ...
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A new ransomware strain called CryptoHost was discovered, which claims that it encrypts your data and then demands a ransom of .33 bitcoins to get your files back (~140 USD at the current ...
Ransomware is now one of the greatest threats on the internet. In the past, IT Security firms used to monitor spear-phishing attacks by espionage outfits, but these techniques are now ...
Great story by Erika Kinetz at the Associated Press. How Mattel was the victim of CEO Fraud using phishing and social engineering to trick one of their executives in China to make a $3 ...
It's happening in the UK today, and you can expect it in America tomorrow [correction- it's already happening today]. The bad guys in Eastern Europe are often using the U.K. as their beta ...
We're stoked here. We got 1st place for the Tampa Best Places To Work - small business category!!! The Tampa Bay Times has a yearly "Best Places To Work" contest, and surveys the ...
Been suspecting that your users are plugging in any USB stick they find, to see what is on it? Well, you are right, they actually do that. Fresh scientific research by Google, and the ...
A brand new Alert by the FBI on April 4th 2016 warns of a major increase in what they call business email compromise or BEC (we call it CEO Fraud), amounting to a whopping $2.3 billion in ...
