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This Week Top 10 Phishing Scams

It's my job to keep an eye out for the most recent phishing scams and let everyone know. One of the newsletters I get as a source for this is called "hoaxslayer". They just reported some ...

SNEAK PEEK at hot new site HACKBUSTERS

KnowBe4 Announces HackBusters, A Curated IT Security News Site

NIST Releases Voluntary Cybersecurity Compliance Framework

Online social engineering scams flourish around Valentine's Day

Michael Cooney at Network World summarized the current scams doing the rounds related to online dating and romance sites. A good reminder that heartless con artists use social engineering ...

BREAKING NEWS Target Data Breach Started With Phishing Attack

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06 Cryptolocker Scrambles Files Of US Law Firm

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06

Which HackBusters Logo Do You Like Best?

You miss important IT security news because you aren’t subscribed to the right sources, or the relevant security news is snowed under simply because of the incredible volume. So KnowBe4 ...

Fake LinkedIn Phishing Profiles Going Pro

Cryptolocker Scrambles All Legal Files Of US Law Firm

WSOCTV in Charlotte, North Carolina's reports on a Goodson's, a small US law firm there which stepped forward and bravely admitted that their whole file server was scrambled by ...

Dont Let Your C-Level Execs Wind Up At Capitol Hill Like This

Major U.S. retailers at Senate hearing: hackers have upper hand

Largest Website in Sweden Social Engineering Scam

David Jacoby, Kaspersky Lab Expert wrote this blog post yesterday and it shows that employees need to be on their toes with security top of mind even when they visit the largest websites. ...

Why Cybercrime Pays Off

ransomware phishing warning issued by European Cybercrime Centre

Looks like the bad guys are also targeting Europe with ransomware phishing scams.

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05

FBI: The 10 Criminal Cyber Crime Professions

The Center for Cyber Forensics and Information Security (CCFIS) reported in a blog: "The FBI has recently classified the different 'professional positions' they have encountered in the ...

Social Engineering Alert: Missed Call From A Mystery Number?

TechCrunch wrote: "The people who read our site are a pretty savvy lot. You know not to accept checks from distant princes. You can spot a phisher from a mile away. But here’s one that ...

Worst Phishing Scam Of The Week Yet: Cryptolocker

Why Security Awareness Training? Cryptolocker, That's Why... We here at KnowBe4 have been getting a lot of system admins calling us with the request for security awareness training ...

Major Hotel Franchise Announces Data Breach

White Lodging, a company that maintains hotel franchises under nationwide brands including Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton and Westin appears to have suffered a data breach that exposed credit ...

Yahoo Email Hacked

Yahoo warned yesterday that unknown attackers have attempted to access a number of Yahoo Mail accounts, and urged users to change their passwords even if they haven't been affected. Jay ...

Feb 1st Is National Change Your Password Day


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