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March 2, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

[On-Demand Webinar] What Most Computer Security Defenses Are Doing Wrong and How to Fix It

Most companies have huge gaps in their computer security defenses, and can be compromised at will by a determined hacker. The industry even has a term for it: “Assume Breach”. But it ...

March 2, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Another Ransomware Variant Strikes Colorado DOT Days after Initial Attack

Colorado’s Department of Transportation (CDOT) has suffered an infection from another variant of the same ransomware family that attacked it just days earlier. On 1 March, a variant of ...

March 1, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

UK University Students Lose £100,000 to Phishing

Phishing technique aided by social engineering in the form of using social channels to friend victims and create fake events to get creds. UK university students have been conned out of ...

March 1, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Almost One Quarter Of Canadians Have Clicked On A Phishing Link

TORONTO, March 1, 2018 /CNW/ - Online payment fraud like phishing is a growing trend, and Canadians are worried about it. According to a new survey conducted by Interac Corp., Canadians ...

February 28, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Ad Network Uses Advanced Malware Technique To Conceal Cryptojacking Ads

I blogged a few days ago about a method to embed a crypto-mining script in a Word doc. Turns out an ad network has done an even better job! Arstechnica wrote: "Domain-name algorithms are ...

February 28, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Financial phishing accounts for over 50% of all phishing attacks for the first time

In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages. Of those, over 53 per cent were attempts to visit a ...

February 28, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers Invade German Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs

Foreign hackers have invaded secure networks of various German government departments. According to German and Dutch media, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense were among the ...

February 28, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations Are Failing To Learn From Phishing And Ransomware Attacks

Warwick Ashford, security editor at ComputerWeekly had an interesting observation after reading CyberArk's latest cyber threat report: "Organisations are failing to learn from cyber ...

February 27, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Defender Comes To Aid Of Older Microsoft Windows Versions

Antivirus companies are not going to like this. Microsoft blogged that their Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) security service soon will be coming to Win7 and Win8.1 ...

February 24, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Annabelle: The Terrifying New Ransomware Variant

A new ransomware variant called Annabelle has been discovered, which seems to have been designed to ‘show off the skills’ of the developer who created it, by being as difficult to deal ...

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