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February 16, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: Lowlife Scum Exploits Recent Florida Parkland School Shooting

Just when you think they cannot sink any lower, criminal internet scum are now exploiting the Parkland tragedy in Florida. Unfortunately, from this spot I have been warning about these ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Edward Snowden returns to U.S.! Oops, nope, it's a phishing scam

Bradley Barth at SCMedia nailed it when he wrote: "No, NSA whistleblower and U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden did not just purchase a 2 terabyte storage plan for iCloud, nor has he moved back ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Trusted Sites Often Deliver Phishing Attacks: Study

Ray Schultz at MediaPost had a great summary of some troublesome news: "Some of the world’s most popular websites are also the most dangerous when in comes to phishing attacks, according ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

New Research: Number of Microsoft vulnerabilities continues to go up over the years

The number of Microsoft vulnerabilities has more than doubled in the last five years, according to the fifth annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report from Avecto. The global security ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

New Multi-Stage Word Phishing Attack Infects Users Without Using Macros

Spam distributors are using a new technique to infect users with malware, and while this phishing attack relies on having users open Word documents, it does not involve social engineering ...

February 15, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Lazarus Hacking Group back with new phishing campaign targeting banks and bitcoin users

The North Korean Lazarus Hacking Group, suspected to be behind the WannaCry ransomware attack last year, has returned with a new crime spree, this time targeting financial institutions ...

February 14, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Security Awareness Training Top Priority for CISOs: Report [PDF]

SecurityWeek's Kevin Townsend wrote an excellent summary of the brand new FS-ISAC - "CISO Cybersecurity Trends Study": "Thirty-five percent of CISOs in the financial sector consider staff ...

February 11, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Attains SOC 2 Type I Compliance For The Hosted Phishing And Training Product Offerings

KnowBe4, Inc, the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, this week announced it has successfully completed a Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 ...

February 11, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

WHAT IS “REASONABLE CYBER SECURITY” AND HOW DO COURTS VIEW IT?

Shawn Tuma is an attorney with an internationally recognized reputation in cybersecurity, computer fraud, and data privacy law. He is a Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Attorney at Scheef ...

February 10, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

New Trend In Phishing: Conversation Hijacking

Researchers see a new trend in phishing. Hackers are inserting themselves into email conversations between parties known to and trusted by one another. Once in, they exploit that trust to ...