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11 ways ransomware is evolving

Michael Nadeau is a senior editor with CSO Online. He has been a publisher and editor of magazines, books, and knowledgebases that help companies get the most from their ERP systems. This ...

Phishing Tops IRS List of Tax-Related Scams for 2018

Michael Trimarchi at the Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs wrote an excellent article about the continued risk of phishing, as reported by the IRS: "The stealing of personal ...

Best-Funded US Cyber Security Startups By State [InfoGraphic]

We were just made aware of this very interesting map created by CBInsights. It lists the most well-funded cyber security companies in each US State as of Feb 2, 2018. To our pleasant ...

Scam Of The Week: Fiendishly Clever Gmail Phishing Scam You Need To Know About

Twitter user @_thp shared a recent phishing scam that they received; and it’s so fiendishly clever that it’s gone viral. They wrote: "This is the most clever phishing scam I've ever ...

New Security Tool: Mailserver Security Assessment [It's Free]

Do you know what's getting through your mail filters?

SAM.Gov Hackers Were Handed Spear Phishing, Spoofing & Credential Theft On A Gold Platter

Cybercrooks who stole federal payments by hacking contractor accounts on a GSA website used sophisticated spear phishing techniques to steal login credentials and then diverted payments ...

SAM.gov hackers used spear phishing, email spoofing and credential theft

Cybercrooks who stole federal payments by hacking contractor accounts on a GSA website used sophisticated spear phishing techniques to steal login credentials and then diverted payments ...

Scam Of The Week: 150 Million Under Armour MyFitnessPal Users Are Now Phishing Targets

BREAKING NEWS: Under Armour's health- and fitness-tracking app, MyFitnessPal, has been hit by a data breach. Roughly 150 million MyFitnessPal users are affected, Under Armour says. Under ...

So, How Did Russia Succeed In Hacking Our Energy Systems?

The nightmare scenario is the grid going down and we're all pushed back a 100 years (electricity started around 1880 but only became common in the 1930s). James Conca wrote in Forbes: ...

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security

Kevin Townsend wrote a great article about AI in SecurityWeek, looking at the current state of affairs and the expected near future, based on a recent important scientific paper titled: ...