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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TEWKSBURY – Last December Tewksbury Police confronted a new, and growing, frontier in cyberterrorism when the CryptoLocker ransomware virus infected the department’s network, encrypting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Health records are the new credit cards. They have a longer shelf life and are often easier to get. There are more opportunities for fraud. No wonder that bad guys are after them with a ...
Been mystified why end-users do not seem to get it? Their eyes glazing over when a security alert pops up on their screen? Brand new neuroscience research using MRI shows a dramatic drop ...
