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CyberheistNews vol3, #05

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Fake Apple Invoices

Internet criminals are getting more and more inventive with their social engineering attacks. Here are two examples of fake Apple invoices. The first is an example from the Sophos blog ...
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CyberheistNews Vol3, #3

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Facebook Scams You Need To Watch Out For

Facebook is loved far and wide by scammers. It's a great pool of an almost unlimited amount of victims, most of whom are gullible enough to fall for the most simple scams. Shooting fish ...
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VERY Positive Beta Results Home Internet Security Course

You may know that we are coming out with an Home Internet Security Course for consumers. Why? When we asked the participants who finished our enterprise Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness ...
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Upper Management Often Ignores IT Security Policy

Over the years I have had a nagging suspicion that only today was confirmed. I ran into a study done last year done by a company called Cryptzone who interviewed 300 IT Security ...
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Facebook Graph Search Is Social Engineering Bonanza

Zuck has come out with something new, and you always need to watch it when that happens. It's a combination of big data and social networking so that people can easily find new friends, ...
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Here are the 20 people that did the Beta first

And got their $20 Amazon Gift card sent to them today. Again, thanks very much for participating in the Kevin Mitnick Home Internet Security Training. The overall feedback was incredibly ...
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Healthcare Security Awareness Training

KnowBe4 and it's CEO Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced shower-man) were featured in For The Record Magazine, a leading publication for Healthcare. The article was about the risks of Bring Your ...
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CyberheistNews vol3, #02

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Scam Of The Week Hotmail MSN

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Scam Of The Week Hotmail MSN[/caption] It's a new year and you'd like to think that your users are getting smarter about clicking on ...
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RUSH Do a Free $30 Internet Security Course and Get a $20 Amazon Gift Cert

Hi All, we have some super exciting news. Tons of the people that did our enterprise course said they had learned a bunch of scary things, and immediately asked how they could share this ...
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Deloitte Study shows 88 percent thinks they are cyber threat safe

Oh my. Deloite UK did a bunch of interviews with small and medium organizations which showed that a whopping 88% think they are safe and will not be attacked from the outside. Talk about ...
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Scam Example: Amazon Marketplace

Josh More, a Senior Security Consultant at RJS smart security was in the market for a new camera, and was almost scammed when he saw a deal on Amazon that was only $1,836.73 instead of ...
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CyberheistNews vol3, #01

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How to Address Securitys Weakest Link

User Awareness Tops Security Leaders' List of Challenges Tom Field over at the Healthcare Infosecurity Site nails it:" Heading into 2013, security leaders across industry feel confident ...
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Thanks For Your Support We Grew 470 percent from 2011 to 2012

[caption id="Stu Sjouwerman" align="alignleft" width="390"]Stu Sjouwerman, Founder and CEO of KnowBe4,LLC [/caption] Thanks for your support! KnowBe4's 2011 to 2012 year-over-year growth ...
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Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013

Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013 - First Quantity, Now Quality: In 2013, cybercrime will focus more on quality than before. They will opt for increasingly smart malware, and more ...
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LogMeIn and DocuSign Investigate Breach Claims

Customers of remote PC administration service LogMeIn.com and electronic signature provider DocuSign.com are complaining of a possible breach of customer information after receiving ...
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Infographic The eternal life of malware

The San Mateo, California based security firm AlienVault created a very interesting infographic that they called “The eternal life of malware.” because the malware gets recycled and ...
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