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First a 10Gig dump with the full Ashley Madison database. Then a 20Gig dump with their whole Github repository, and then to top it all off a 300G(!) dump. In an interview with Motherboard ...
Your end-users saw this in the news yesterday, or will read about it today. The hackers who stole more than 36 million records from the Ashley Madison site (which makes it easy to cheat ...
Until last year, executives were able to pass the buck to IT in case a data breach hit the organization. However, several recent high-profile resignations are now putting the focus on ...
CyberheistNews Vol 5 #34 Aug 18, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Massive WebAd Poisoning The same cybercrime lowlifes that infected the Yahoo website a few weeks ago have struck again, this time ...
The same cybercrime lowlifes that infected the Yahoo website a few weeks ago have struck again, this time infecting sites like Drudge Report and Weather.com. Both sites have hundreds of ...
Massive hacks continue to fill the front page of major media outlets. The recent hack of the Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by Chinese state-sponsored hackers again showed ...
CyberheistNews Vol 5 #32 Aug 11, 2015 Massive 46M Dollar Cyberheist / Pentagon Spear-phished / BlackHat Hot & Scary Brian Krebs just reported on a massive 46M dollar Cyberheist. Tech ...
OK, so I decided to upgrade my plain vanilla Dell XPS box that I bought 2 years ago, running Windows 8.1. Enough memory, nothing special installed. Upgraded using the "Get Windows 10" ...
Elon Musk sent me this email: "If you have friends who might like to receive a $1,000 discount on a Model S, below is an email that you can edit if you choose and send to them." Now, I ...
It was known inside the InfoSec community, but now more details have been made public through CNN after a BlackHat 2015 presentation: "Three years ago, the world witnessed the worst hack ...
It was another great BlackHat. If you could not make it, here is a roundup of things that I thought were particularly interesting from the perspective we have here at KnowBe4. It's a ...
The Pentagon divulged that its computer networks were penetrated by suspected Russian hackers using spear-phishing. The hackers got into their unclassified email network used by the Joint ...
Brian Krebs just reported on a massive $46M Cyberheist. Networking firm Ubiquiti Networks Inc. disclosed this week that cyber thieves recently stole $46.7 million using an increasingly ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #31 August 4, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Microsoft Windows 10 Upgrade Installs Ransomware Major Operating System upgrades usually cause confusion among end-users and the ...
KnowBe4 had a July sales game and the top three reps won a day at Florida's Sebring racing track. They had a great day and here are some shots by KnowBe4's Creative Director Robert La ...
Major Operating System upgrades are usually a cause of confusion among end-users and the current Windows 10 upgrade is no exception. The bad guys exploit these confusions in several ways, ...
I have been talking for years at this blog about the Chinese hacking into the U.S. for mainly espionage, using highly sophisticated social engineering and spear-phishing attacks. This ...
By Guest Blogger Brad Mathis, Senior Consultant, Information Security It is mid-2015. By now, we have all seen incoming emails claiming we have been bequeathed a huge sum of money from a ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #30 July 28, 2015 How To Get The OK To Phish Your Own Employees IT people responsible for network security talk to us all the time. Almost all of them agree that ...
