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So, What Is The Real Reason The White House Got Hacked?

According to a new CyberEdge research survey of 19 sectors, including government, spearphishing is the biggest concern to IT security pros, more worrisome than even malware. And only 20 ...

Websense: Malware-as-a-Service Makes Cybercrime Easier

Websense released their annual Threat Report, which is interesting if you want to know what’s really happening in the criminal cyber landscape. Here are a few highlights, with a link to ...

New Ransomware CrypVault Makes Files Look Like They Are Quarantined

New Ransomware CrypVault Evades AV With Simple Batch Scripts A new ransomware strain dubbed CRYPVAULT by Trend Micro is being spread as an email attachment. It's currently focusing on ...

KnowBe4 Offers White House Free Security Awareness Training

April 7, 2015 - CNN reported that The White House said it noticed suspicious activity in the unclassified network that serves the executive office of the president. The KnowBe4 Blog ...

Facebook sends simulated phishing attacks to their employees

Fortune reported: "Each fall, Facebook hosts an event called Hacktober in which its security experts attempt to trick employees into falling for common hacking tricks such as phishing ...

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #14 IBM ALERT: 'Dyre Wolf' Uses Spear Phishing For $1Mil+ Cyberheists

IBM ALERT: 'Dyre Wolf' Uses Spear Phishing For $1Mil+ Cyberheists Last week, IBM Security reported on an active cyberheist campaign using a variant of the Dyre Trojan that has ...

SHOCKER: Data Breaches Cost Big Companies Very Little

Two articles today in Fortune Magazine and Harvard Business Review each lifted a piece of the veil about a dirty little secret about data breaches. From Home Depot to Target to Sony, big ...

Police Pay Ransom After Ransomware Phishing Attack

TEWKSBURY – Last December Tewksbury Police confronted a new, and growing, frontier in cyberterrorism when the CryptoLocker ransomware virus infected the department’s network, encrypting ...

10 Hacking Facts / How They Impact You [Infographic]

Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing concerns for business and consumers, especially when it comes to social media. So much personal identifiable information (PII) exists across the ...

IBM: 'Dyre Wolf' Cyber Gang Uses Spear Phishing For $1 Million Cyberheists

Last week, IBM Security reported on an active cyberheist campaign using a variant of the Dyre Trojan that has successfully stolen more than $1 million at a time from targeted enterprise ...

NEW: This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts #2

There is an enormous amount of noise in the security space, so how do you know what people really talk about and think is the most important topic? Well, we created the Hackbusters site ...

KnowBe4 First Quarter 2015

Our first quarter knocked it out of the park. Normally Q4 is the highest quarter in the year, but we eclipsed last year's Q4 handsomely. Year-over-year, Q1 of 2015 was 354 percent over Q1 ...

ALERT: New Ransomware Spearphish Uses One-Click Dropbox Attack

The cyber-mafia is stepping up the pressure. As you know, there are several competing gangs that are furiously innovating in an attempt to grab as much money as possible. Call it a ...

NEW: This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts

There is an enormous amount of noise in the security space, so how do you know what people really talk about and think is the most important topic? Well, we created the Hackbusters site ...

Scam Of The Week: 911 Phone Threat

Residents in Ohio are being "beta tested" by cybercrime for a scam that will inevitably also hit all other states. Here is your Scam Of The Week heads-up. This particular scam will also ...

35 percent of Kansas City Employees Turn Out Phish-prone

From the Kansas City Star: Would-be hackers duped 35% of Kansas City employees into opening the door to municipal computer systems sometime in the last six months, a city audit report ...

RANT: Renewing Office 365 Online D(H)ell

OK, buying a new Dell machine 12 months ago I decided to get a subscription to Office 365. For about a year everything ran fine, but then I started to get warning messages in the apps ...

Experts: Social Engineering Attacks Harder To Stop

Michael Heller at TechTarget wrote a good longish article where he concluded: "As more personal and corporate information is shared on the Web, social engineering techniques and attacks ...

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #12 Why Your Brain Shuts Down When You See A Security Alert

"ALERT: New Ransomware Spear Phish Uses One-Click Dropbox Attack The cyber-mafia is stepping up the pressure. As you know, there are several competing gangs that are furiously innovating ...

How to get your Phish-prone percentage up. Up? Yes, Up.

Something surprising happened last week. A few of our customers reported that their phish-prone percentage was going up. Up? Yes, up. Not something you normally would expect or ...


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