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Consumer Privacy: California Follows in the Footsteps of GDPR

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375) takes effect on January 1, 2020 and will be the most exacting data privacy policy in the United States. Similar to the European ...

Watch Out – Cryptojacking rises 1,180 percent!

As if ransomware wasn’t enough of a problem, the addition coin mining malware’s and a 1,189% mind-bending increase is enough to make you sit up and take notice. Cryptomining is a ...

Nothing is Sacred: Scammers Phish Church Parishioners

Always looking for new ways to separate you from your money, cybercriminals in Canada are using names of priests and archbishops to solicit money.

They’re Trying to Run Malicious Code (And You’re Letting Them!)

According to a new threat report from security vendor eSentire, 91% of endpoint incidents involve files that won’t be defeated/blocked/removed by anti-malware solutions.

KnowBe4’s Year-Over-Year Sales DOUBLE Q2 2018

We doubled our year-over-year sales for Q2, bringing us to well over 19,000 customers worldwide. This makes 21 consecutive up quarters.

Homographic Domains Make Phishing Scams Easier

Is that email from citibank.com or citíbank.com? If you think that last sentence was a mistake, take another look, as you may be the next phishing victim. Cybercriminals are using ...

Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye. Exactis Leaks A Database With 340 Million Personal Data Records

Whoa Nellie. Here is the ultimate spear phishing data trove. WIRED reported: "Earlier this month, security researcher Vinny Troia discovered that Exactis, a Palm Coast, Florida-based data ...

When Ransomware Attacks Triple, You Need to Pay Attention!

Security vendor SonicWall just released their latest report on cyberattack volumes… and the numbers are staggering.

CyberheistNews Vol 8 #26 [Heads-up] New Sleeper Strain of SamSam Ransomware Bypasses AV And Stays Hidden On Your Network

Do Employees Open Your Network to the Bad Guys by Using Hacked Passwords?

A whopping 25% of employees are using the same password for all logins. What if that password is available on the dark web? A massive amount of passwords are compromised due to data ...