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February 23, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Which phishing messages have a near 100% click rate?

Zeljika at HelpnetSecurity had a great summary of Wombat's latest State of the Phish report: "Training employees to spot phishing emails, messages and phone calls can’t be done just once ...

February 23, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

The Class Action Litigation Consequences of Business Email Compromise Attacks

Sunil Shenoi, Seth Traxler and Gianni Cutri are partners at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and advise clients on a variety of data security issues, including responding to data security ...

February 22, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

2,000 Systems Down Due To SamSam Ransomware Infection At Colorado Department of Transportation

February 22, the attack hit CDOT’s computers, encrypted files and demanded to pay the ransom in Bitcoins. Security officials shut down more than 2,000 employee computers while they ...

February 22, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Insider Trading Can Pose Cyber Security Risks Says SEC Chair Clayton

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton warned today insider trading by executives from undisclosed hacks and weak protections can pose cyber security risks to the reputation ...

February 21, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Bad news: 43% of login attempts 'malicious' Good news: Er, umm...

The Register in the UK reported: "An extraordinary 43 per cent of all attempted online account logins are malicious, Akamai claims in its latest internet security report. "Credential ...

February 21, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Now *HERE* Is A Devious Combo pretexting / vishing / SMS Social Engineering Attack!

Someone on Reddit described how he was the victim of a very sophisticated social engineering attack. Wow, this is crafty. This is the story!: "I have different passwords for every website ...

February 21, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

PHISHING SCHEMES NET HACKERS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM FORTUNE 500

IBM has uncovered sophisticated CEO Fraud campaigns—aka Business Email Compromise—which are successfully targeting Fortune 500 companies. On Wednesday, researchers from IBM's X-Force ...

February 21, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Cryptojacking Scripts And Phishing Pages Could Soon Invade Your Word Documents

Let's open that doc file and watch the Matrix again. Catalin Cimpanu at Bleepingcomputer had the scoop on this concerning news: "Cryptojacking scripts that mine Monero via JavaScript code ...

February 20, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads-up] The May 2018 GDPR Deadline May Fuel New Extortion Attempts

Trend Micro has released its annual security roundup, and it shows several interesting trends that will likely continue into 2018. There is bad news and worse news, with a little bit of ...

February 19, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Global Cyber Security Risk Perception: Highest Management Priorities

Few organizations are highly confident in their ability to manage the risk of a cyber-attack, despite viewing cybersecurity as a top risk management priority, according to a survey ...

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