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CyberheistNews Vol 5 #18 May 5, 2015 Your Antivirus Enduser Is Exposed To Phishing Attacks For 17.5 Hours The 2015 Websense threat report is abundantly clear about it. "Websense detected ...
The 2015 Websense threat report is abundantly clear about it. "Websense detected 28 percent of malicious email messages before an antivirus signature became available, presenting AV users ...
NEW: This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts What are IT security people talking about? Here are this week's five most popular hackbusters posts: 1) The Untold Story Of Silk Road ...
Low-cost airline Ryanair shamefacedly came clean last week that they fell victim to a cyberheist which stole almost 5 million dollars out of its fuel bank account. The money was siphoned ...
Proofpoint threat researchers recently detected a clever email-based attack that combines phishing and social engineering techniques in order to trick users into opening a malicious ...
More than 5,000 people dead and counting. And you can also count on cyber-criminals exploiting the disaster. What else is new. Disgusting. Scammers are now using the Nepal disaster to ...
Ransomware is being localized for large Asian countries now. There is an ongoing attack targeting Korea, followed by Malaysia and then Japan. If you have business partners or subsidiaries ...
A few days ago, you may have read the news that Tesla Motors had their website and Twitter accounts hijacked by pranksters. OpenDNS has a blog post that goes into great technical detail.
FUN CARTOON: The 5 Generations Of Security Awareness Training For a change, let's have some fun for a moment. InfoSec is gloomy enough as you will see if you keep on reading. So first the ...
Bitcoin is a very speculative currency, still relatively easy to manipulate compared to the major currencies, and subject to massive increases and drops in value. Currently the falling ...
I was at RSA in San Francisco last week. Great show, with ~30,000 attendees and packed exhibit halls at the Moscone Center. We invited KnowBe4 customers who were attending RSA for a ...
*|CyberHeistNews|* Scam Of The Week: IRS Refund Ransomware CyberheistNews Vol 5 #16 Apr 21, 2015 Scam Of The Week: IRS Refund Ransomware Many of us waited till the last moment before the ...
Today, your employees are frequently exposed to advanced phishing and ransomware attacks. Your users are the weak link in your IT security. There are 5 ways (generations) to train ...
Many of us waited till the last moment before the April 15 tax deadline and are now holding our collective breath in expectation of that possibly rewarding refund. The problem is that ...
Don't have time to read through the massive Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report? Here is a great summary; 90% of Security incidents are still caused by PEBKAC and ID10T ...
The new Internet Security Threat report from Symantec shows that the growth of file-encrypting ransomware expanded from 8,274 in 2013 to 373,342 in 2014. This is 45 times more ...
Facts surrounding spear phishing all point to employees as the most cited culprits and security awareness training as the most effective remedy. Yet all training programs are not equal. ...
New Ransomware CrypVault Evades AV With Simple Batch Scripts A new ransomware strain dubbed CRYPVAULT is being spread as an email attachment. It's beta testing in Eastern Europe and is ...
In this Wednesday, April 1, 2015 photo, Jeff Salter, CEO of Caring Senior Service, poses for a photo in his company office building in San Antonio. Last December, the network of nearly 30 ...
Wall Street Journal Video About Ransomware and Botnets The WSJ asked itself: Who Will Cybercriminals Target Next? (click on the picture to see the video at the WSJ website). ...
