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Paychex wrote a great article about the urgency of creating a cyber security culture in your business. This is excellent ammo to send to your C-level execs: "Creating a cyber security ...
As you may have heard, KnowBe4 has released a no-charge Outlook Add-in that allows employees to report phishing attacks to their Incident Response team with just one click. It's called ...
This is a real one. A number of people using Dell PCs have been contacted by scammers claiming to be Dell Tech Support who actually had specific data that only Dell could have had. We're ...
A new study by Enigma Software revealed the hardest hit cities in the country when it comes to computer viruses. Tampa was ranked #2 for malware infections per person. That's 842% above ...
Researchers discovered a sample of ransomware that damages files permanently. The malicious code is based on the work of Turkish Oktu Sen security researchers, who last year made their ...
This is a real one. A number of people using Dell PCs have been contacted by scammers claiming to be Dell Tech Support who actually had specific data that only Dell could have had. We're ...
For this Scam Of The Week, we decided to go out on a limb and run a "What If" scenario" on an attack that we think is very likely.
(Tampa Bay, FL) January 11, 2016 --- KnowBe4 announced its explosive year over year growth of 358% for Q4 2015, with a record number of new corporate accounts and a stellar customer ...
Cybercrime has piggybacked on the extremely successful SaaS model and several strains of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) like TOX, Fakben and Radamant have appeared in 2015
Cybercrime has piggybacked on the extremely successful SaaS model and several strains of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) like TOX, Fakben and Radamant have appeared in 2015. However, a new ...
"I feel like a complete idiot. I just got taken by a LinkedIn spam that may have just stolen my banking password." These words dropped in my inbox, written a while ago by Dan Tynan, ...
I received this the last day of the year from a Director of IT Security who works at a mid-size credit union. "Stu, I think you’ll be interested in my story. If you want to share it, just ...
Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher over at our friends at Malwarebytes reported about a new, in-the-wild tech support scam that has moved from Amazon Web Services to Rackspace's ...
At the end of the year I spend a few days reading all the IT security pundit's 2016 predictions and synthesize them with my own perspective. The Crystal Ball issue is the shortest of the ...
We are excited to announce that the Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 2016 module has been released. If your subscription is current, you will see it in the Training -> ...
You are probably aware that Comcast is the largest home ISP in the U.S. and that they also have many thousands of business users. No wonder they are the target of a sophisticated social ...
You are probably aware that Comcast is the largest home ISP in the U.S. and that they also have many thousands of business users. No wonder they are the target of a sophisticated social ...
This month, Symantec researchers reported a boost in TeslaCrypt attacks, going from 200 a day to 1,800. TeslaCrypt first appeared in March 2015, and differentiated itself because many of ...
Federal regulators have hit the University of Washington Medicine with a $750,000 penalty and a corrective action plan as part of a HIPAA settlement after a 2013 malware-related breach ...
In the last few months, law enforcement has warned repeatedly about a new scam that is rapidly expanding. The FBI calls it "Business Email Compromise" (BEC), but it is better known as ...
