Hackers hit Monster Jobs users with Gameover Zeus malware

Mar 27, 2014 7:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Companies that are recruiting new employees are being targeted through Monster Jobs. The bad guys are using malware called Gameover Zeus, security firm F-secure reported in a blog post ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 12 NSA's Secret Efforts To Hack System Admins

Mar 25, 2014 8:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 12

CryptoLocker Has A Competitor That Is Worse: CryptoDefense

Mar 24, 2014 4:35:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

As we said before, there is furious competition between cybergangs. Late February 2014 a copycat ransomware competitor to Cryptolocker was released which outdoes CryptoLocker. The malware ...

Florida Blue takes security awareness training personally

Mar 24, 2014 3:55:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Great post about security awareness by Douglas B. Robison, Florida Blue, a 2014 CSO40 award recipient. Here is an excerpt:

Scam Of The Week: You Owe Taxes, Pay Now Or Else

Mar 21, 2014 5:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This scam uses a combination of phishing emails and spoofed Caller ID scam calls. The scammers intimidate the victim, threaten with arrest, deportation or loss of a business or driver’s ...

All major browsers fall during day 2 of Pwn2Own hacking contest

Mar 21, 2014 12:52:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security researchers demonstrated zero-day exploits against Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Flash Player during the second day of the ...

Target Breach: Where The Weak Points Were

Mar 18, 2014 4:47:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dave Kearns posted March 18 that he's been fascinated by the information that keeps coming out of the Taget Stores data breach. He's got a great analysis, and he ends off with words that ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 11 Scam Of The Week:

Mar 18, 2014 9:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 11

No Antivirus Detects Russian Malware For 8 Years!

Mar 15, 2014 1:53:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It was all over the news the last few days. Researchers with BAE Systems determined that Russian malware known as Snake dates back as far as 2006, instead of 2011 as initially presented ...

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 ...

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