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Do You Automate Sending SMS/Text Messages For Marketing?

My friend Chip Cooper at digicontracts sent me this, and I think it's a good heads up for all of you. There is a common misconception that text/SMS messages are subject to the same ...

Scam Of The Week: Funeral Notification Phishing Attack

Another one to warn your employees about. The bad guys do not hesitate to exploit the most basic fears of people; the sudden death of a loved one. The message claims to be from a funeral ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 04

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 04

Arg The Cat O Nine Tails For Careless Clickers

Arg! The Cat O' Nine Tails For Careless Clickers!

SHOCKER: Point-Of-Failure Phishing Training Does Not Work

The Govinfosecurity site just reported on some very interesting scientific research that finds so-called "embedded training" is ineffective. Let's quickly define "embedded", they chose ...

WSJ: Did Hackers Got Into Target With Spear-phishing

Today (Jan 22, 2014) Wall Street Journal reporters Charles Levinson and Danny Yadron had a good summary of the current status of the Target Hack.

What Is The Deep Web 101

Pierluigi Paganini wrote a great blog post today. The Deep Web (or Invisible Web) is all the information on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. It's HUGE. According ...

December 2013: 1 in 164 emails infected with some malware

Symantec's Intelligence Report for December 2013 is out. To no one's surprise the rate of infected emails is increasing dramatically last quarter, it looked like this

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 03

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 03

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02B

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02B

IT security more critical now than executives expected two years ago

David Braue at CSO reported on some very interesting results of the 11th Annual Information Security Trends report by CompTIA: "28 per cent of respondents said information security was a ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02

Consider security training before high-end technology

CompterWeekly.com's "Security Think Tank" section has an opinion piece by Mike Gilespie that's right out of the KnowBe4 playbook.

The History Of Hacking In 5 Minutes For Dummies

What do you do when you need to explain the history of hacking to a busy non-technical manager in five minutes or less? Here is an attempt to make this extremely complex subject into a ...

Target Databreach Now 110 Mil Cards - Neiman Marcus Hacked Too

It goes from bad to worse. The initial 40 million turns out to be really 110 million. Apparently the forensics team discovered another 70 million cards exfiltrated. And then the news ...

5 Most Dangerous Phishing Email Subjects

Websense has posted some interesting new phishing research a few days ago. They started out: "With cloud infrastructure easily scalable and rented botnets coming on the cheap, the cost of ...

McAfee on Intel's decision to drop the name McAfee priceless

Oh, this one is priceless.

Firm Bankrupted by Cyberheist Sues Bank

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 1

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 1

KnowBe4 Grows 427% Year Over Year


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