Users are the weakest link in IT

Mar 29, 2012 5:30:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Some excellent work by our colleagues at Trend Micro. They see that users are the weakest link in IT! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="550" caption="Weakest Link in IT"][/caption]

Malicious Office documents target Mac OS X

Mar 29, 2012 3:32:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Trendmicro reported: "We have recently analyzed a series of emails sent to specific users that leverage a certain prominent socio-political issue. One of these messages is about the ...

Unique Malware Samples 2006-2011

Mar 28, 2012 6:42:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="361" caption="Malware Unique Samples"][/caption] Malware is still exploding. Check out this graph. During the last few years, the security industry ...

Video on Zeus Botnet Takedown

Mar 28, 2012 2:36:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You have probably heard about how Microsoft, the US Marshals together with some other organizations killed some some Zeus botnets. Microsoft's PR crew released a video about the operation ...

Netherlands Gets European Centre for Cybercrime

Mar 28, 2012 1:03:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Holland's capital The Hague will get a new international showpiece. The new European Centre for Cybercrime will start there early 2013. European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia ...

CyberheistNews vol 2, #14

Mar 27, 2012 9:19:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

How To Phish Your Employees

Mar 24, 2012 10:16:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I wrote a new article that is also available in the resources section on our website: More and more, the bad guys are bypassing your firewall, endpoint protection and other ...

Shield your business from cybercrooks

Mar 23, 2012 4:00:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Anne Fisher, Editor of New York's Executive Inbox wrote: "Can you recognize a potentially disastrous breach of your computer systems security when you see it? Lets find out with two ...

Look Ma, malware without files!

Mar 21, 2012 4:38:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wow, instead of an exploit dropping a file onto the file system and running it... a DLL is injected straight into memory from the exploit, leaving nothing to scan on the harddrive. Writen ...

CyberheistNews vol 2, #13

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CyberheistNews vol 2, #7

Mar 21, 2012 3:31:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #7 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Facebook Malware Scam Of The Week A "worrying number" of ...

For cloud services, security first - growth second

Mar 20, 2012 9:27:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Richard Stiennon at Forbes has a very good point. "My oft repeated advice for technology vendors is that security sells. Given a choice between two vendors of similar products or services ...

The Cridex malware trojan hides in fake LinkedIn invitations.

Mar 20, 2012 9:10:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Cridex malware trojan hides in fake LinkedIn invitations. Take care with those invites! GFI Labs recently discovered a LinkedIn email phishing scam that installs a banking trojan. It ...

Major malware gang taken down today in Russia

Mar 20, 2012 8:43:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Members of the largest criminal group engaged in online banking fraud are detained March 20, 2012 MOSCOW Group-IB, the first Russian company providing comprehensive investigation of IT ...

CyberheistNews vol 2, #6

Mar 19, 2012 5:00:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #6 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Facebook Malware Scam Of The Week A "worrying number" of ...

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