Phishing FaceBook: Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted

Mar 15, 2014 11:04:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers jump on every opportunity they can to trick people. This time they hijacked to story about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

New Phishing Scam Promises Bitcoins

Mar 15, 2014 8:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Lily Newman at the Future Tense blog wrote this post for the slate site, after Slate's news editor Chad Lorenz received a new phishing email purportedly from coinbase, who happily ...

Scam Of The Week: "You may have cancer" phishing email

Mar 13, 2014 7:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Amy Stevens of the PR group Davies Murphy became part of the story when Eduard Kovacs at SoftPedia picked up on her tweet about a phishing email she just received. If you recently had a ...

U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack

Mar 13, 2014 11:47:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Wall Street Journal this morning published something that I do NOT like at all. I am expressing myself mildly. A federal analysis says that sabotage of just nine key substations is ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 10 Scam Of The Week Cell Phone Voucher

Mar 11, 2014 9:09:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 10

When A Stranger Calls

Mar 10, 2014 10:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dr. Neal Krawetz posted something very useful over at the hackerfactor. Apart from that it's also very entertaining. He is legally recording various cold-calls he gets. Some of them are ...

Sophisticated Scam Of The Week: Cell Phone Voucher

Mar 9, 2014 8:37:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There's a fresh, well thought-out social engineering scam sticking up its ugly head right now. The bad guys are promising cell phone users amounts of up to $100 in vouchers using a ...

Sticking With WinXP? 10 Things You Must Do

Mar 6, 2014 9:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I'm sure you know that April 8 2014, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP and stop creating security updates for XP as well. That means that when after April 8, 2014 another security ...

Pre-installed malware turns up on new phones

Mar 6, 2014 9:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A fake version of Netflix that steals personal data and sends it to Russia has been found on several phone models

Inevitable: Phishing That Pretends To Be Salesforce.com

Mar 6, 2014 8:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Just a heads-up, screen shot above. The lifehacker site in Australia warned about a phishing scam using a "salesforce" email as bait. The bad guys will use anything to get you to click, ...

Are malware threats making anti-virus software useless?

Mar 5, 2014 1:59:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CBC News had a pretty controversial headline today. They wrote that some computer consultants say the global malware threat has gotten so bad that conventional security measures, such as ...

How to Test the Phishing Savvy of Your Staff

Mar 5, 2014 1:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 09 41 Percent Of Infected Pay The CryptoLocker Ransom

Mar 4, 2014 9:07:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 09

Average Enterprise Is Hit by a Cyber Attack Every 1.5 Seconds

Mar 1, 2014 3:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

FireEye released its yearly Advanced Threat Report, and they did some interesting math. Enterprises are hit by cyber attacks on average once every 1.5 seconds, which is double from the ...

41 Percent Of Infected Pay The Cryptolocker Ransom

Mar 1, 2014 9:10:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have warned about the Cryptolocker ransomware before, but now we have some hard numbers about the percentage of people that are forced to pay up when a workstation or server has been ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 08: This Week Top 10 Phishing Scams

Feb 25, 2014 9:31:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 08

Hackers Used Spear Phishing Attack To Hack CNN Blogs

Feb 21, 2014 2:56:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security analysts at Intelligence firm InterCrawler published the details of the investigation on recent attack against CNN Blogs and social media accounts. Recently a few social media ...

80% Fail To Maintain PCI Compliance Between Assessments

Feb 21, 2014 2:15:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

OUCH. Verizon said in a report this month that nearly 80% of organizations that achieve annual compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard -fail- to maintain that status after passing ...

Kiss Your Old Security Awareness Training Program Goodbye!

Feb 18, 2014 11:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Not Working? Are Users Still Clicking Phishing Links And Opening Infected Attachments?

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Feb 18, 2014 9:05:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 07

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