How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion

Jun 3, 2013 5:48:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion using spear-phising. In summary, they phished Onion employees’ Google Apps accounts via 3 separate methods. From ...

Cybercrime Targets: C-Level execs, HR managers and System Admins

Jun 3, 2013 3:10:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to a recent research of Group-IB on cybercrime, senior management is considered among most popular targets.

Interesting Infection Danger Numbers

Jun 1, 2013 10:16:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Symantec just released a white paper where they compared their product with 6 other enterprise endpoint security products. They had AV-Test do the review, and they included above graph to ...

Top 5 System Admin Hate Votes

May 28, 2013 5:45:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

May 22, the question was asked on Spiceworks: "What is your IT-related arch nemesis?". More than 200 replies came in. We tabulated (and somewhat normalized) the main things that generate ...

The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices

May 27, 2013 10:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

(updated June 17, 2015) You may not be aware that there is a scale of seven deadly vices connected to social engineering. The deadliest social engineering attacks are the ones that have ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3 #22

May 27, 2013 9:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Webroot Spots NATO Job Apps Lead To Malware

May 26, 2013 10:35:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This one qualifies as a Scam Of The Week and it's a good one to forward to your employees.

0-Day Threats and Security Awareness

May 23, 2013 10:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

OK, we all know that there is a lively trade in 0-day threats. Often this is an unknown vulnerability in a popular browser that is not fixed yet. Microsoft recently announced they fixed ...

Your Opinion Please! Family Online Safety

May 22, 2013 9:06:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 21

May 20, 2013 3:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 21

End-user awareness is the missing link in cyber security

May 18, 2013 8:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This article appeared originally at Government Security News Fri, 2013-05-17 03:56 PM By: Megan Horner Megan Horner Nobody can argue that cyber security and data privacy have become hot ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Walmart.com

May 17, 2013 9:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wal-Mart took special effort this week and warned customers of an unusually 'high quality' phishing email that tries to get personal and credit information. They stated on their corporate ...

Cybercrime Attack Vector Of Choice: Employees

May 16, 2013 11:06:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, employees are the low hanging fruit for cybercrime. Organizations counter this with what is called 'Security Awareness Training' (SAT), but modern SAT is far removed from how it ...

Facebook 'Fraud-as-a-Service' Promoted Via Google

May 14, 2013 10:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may have read CyberheistNews Vol 3, #19, which had 'Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream' as its headline. Here is a follow up on that. You can now download apps that hack Facebook, and ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3 #20

May 13, 2013 5:55:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Latest Attack Trend: 'Persistent Spear Phishing'

1st Quarter 2013: 6.5 Million New Malware Strains Built

May 13, 2013 1:30:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Research Team of Panda Labs just reported that between January and March of this year, more than 6.5 million new malware strains were built, and that of those 75% were trojans. In ...

We hired 3 more people, the office is getting full !

May 9, 2013 6:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We had three more people start this week, two in sales and one to help our channel partners. The office is getting full! Our Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training is doing GREAT. We ...

Don't Get Hijacked On Social Media

May 8, 2013 11:12:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

John Mello over at Chief Security Magazine wrote today: "Online social networkers invite data marauders to compromise their accounts by choosing a convenient but risky option offered by ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19

May 7, 2013 9:10:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19 Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream

Do This Phishing IQ Test!

May 5, 2013 9:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Did you know that SonicWall has an interesting Phishing IQ test on their website?

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How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion

Cybercrime Targets: C-Level execs, HR managers and System Admins

Interesting Infection Danger Numbers

Top 5 System Admin Hate Votes

The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices

CyberheistNews Vol 3 #22

Webroot Spots NATO Job Apps Lead To Malware

0-Day Threats and Security Awareness

Your Opinion Please! Family Online Safety

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 21

End-user awareness is the missing link in cyber security

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Walmart.com

Cybercrime Attack Vector Of Choice: Employees

Facebook 'Fraud-as-a-Service' Promoted Via Google

CyberheistNews Vol 3 #20

1st Quarter 2013: 6.5 Million New Malware Strains Built

We hired 3 more people, the office is getting full !

Don't Get Hijacked On Social Media

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19

Do This Phishing IQ Test!

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