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Cyber risk weighs heavy on minds of execs

Tony Bradley at CSO Mag has a good analysis: " There is good news and bad new stemming from the Lloyd’s of London Risk Index 2013 report. The good news is that cyber risk is gaining more ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 34 Security Awareness Training Newsletter

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 34

IT Security Is Broken Bad

With the TV show Breaking Bad in its last season, this seems to be a fun title. However, the topic is not all that much fun. You should realize it's not a question of when you will be ...

Are Your Email Addresses On A Russian Phishing Site?

We are finding many U.S. commercial email addresses at the Russianemailsworld.boommer.ru website. It is really a 'staging' area for emails to be posted by the criminal underground. They ...

Spear-phishing attackers vandalize CNN, TIME and Wash Post

You would think that by now journalists and people in media and advertising would be on the alert for social engineering red flags. But no. Syrian hacktivists sent a spear-phishing attack ...

Forbes: IT Security Industry To Expand Tenfold

Richard Stiennon, Forbes contributor makes a stunning prediction. He claims that most organizations have woefully underspent for IT Security and now that governments around the world have ...

Hackers put a bull's-eye on small business

Less than 500 employees? You’ve got a 20 percent chance of being hacked, and if it happens there’s a good chance your business is finished.

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 33

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 33

We started trusting bad code from Day One

Vint Cerf – Photo by Charles Haynes

Scam Of The Week: "Held For Ransom"

You should alert your users that a particularly effective scam is growing by leaps and bounds recently. It's not new, but it's bursting into mainline cybercrime these last few weeks. The ...

Watching Porn on a Mobile …Risky?

The Internet has its own Red Light District, and it is one of the most unsafe areas you can browse. Online porn is a profitable sideline for the adult industry, but a mainline business ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 32

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 32

Debate: Security Training Effective? What's Your Opinion...

In the August issue of SC Magazine yours truly is one of the two experts that discuss whether security training is an effective strategy in the workplace. My counterpart is Dave Aitel, ...

Liberty and Security - it's not an either/or choice

My good friend Mac Graham just sent me this article that I think is thoughtful, balanced and provides a very interesting solution for this "Liberty versus Security" problem. (Full ...

U.S. Commercial Banking In Top 10 Riskiest Industries.

Mark Holan at the Tampa Bay Business Journal reported on something remarkable. Commercial Banks are in the #6 slot of the Top 10 Riskiest industries in the U.S. (!) "Industry research ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 31

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 31

Scam Of The Week: Christian Singles

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 30

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 30

NSA Surveillance: IT Pro Survey Says What?

Employees the Weakest Link of Cyber Security, Report Finds

Antivirus company Bitdefender reported something important. Here is their blog post of July 17, 2003.


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