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Windows Crash Reports Let NSA Spy On People

Is This Man Selling The Stolen Target Credit Card Data?

Cybercrime Investigative Reporter Brian Krebs had an exclusive post recently providing an inside look at a person who may be a key distributor of the information stolen from Target.

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CyberheistNews Top 2013 Scams

History Repeats Itself And IT Security Suffers

Fake Adobe licence key delivery phishing emails carry malware

Eastern European Hackers Hit Target Phish Out 40M Credit Cards

During the Black Friday shopping week, tens of millions of credit and debit card records were "phished" out of Target. The data breach was nationwide, and has extended for as far as ...

Hacked Chinese Clothes Iron Sends Spam And Malware

Now here's something "new and creative!" Chinese hackers have taken a clothes iron (yes, we are talking a steam iron, see the picture) and added a small device that detects Wi-Fi ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 51

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 51

Interesting info on phishing and social engineering on 60 minutes

Last weekend, 60-minutes had a special about the NSA which spoke out on Snowden and spying. The headline was: "The NSA gives unprecedented access to the agency's HQ and, for the first ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 50

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 50

$1,000 Referral Fee For A Good Sales Rep

Yes, you read that right. I will pay a thousand bucks for a referral that gets me a good sales rep!

10 Social Engineering Predictions for 2014

Here are 10 predictions for 2014, all cyber attacks using social engineering to penetrate the network. Have fun reading, and I will try to report back in 12 months which ones came out as ...

Data Security Laws And Penalties: Pay IT Now Or Pay Out Later

KnowBe4 Customers By Industry 2013

We took a look at our customers in December 2013, and saw some interesting numbers when we broke them out by industry. Over 400 organizations, Banking and Finance together are 35% of the ...

Ponemon: Phishing part of 50% of APT's

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 49

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 49

Social Engineering Causes Seattle Hospital 90K Databreach

Personal Health Information of 90,000 patients was accesssed by hackers because an employee opened an infected email attachment early October this year. When will they learn that ...

The Antivirus Industry’s Dirty Little Secret

[Updated 5/1/2016]. The Antivirus industry has a dirty little secret that they really don’t want anyone to know. Despite the claims of their marketing departments, their products are not ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 48

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 48

Your AntiVirus Does Not See NSA's Botnet

The revelations are getting wilder by the week. The NSA has its own botnet, they infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive ...


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