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Stolen Passwords Of FTSE 100 Employees Tripled In 2017

The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index is an average of share prices in the 100 largest, most actively traded companies on the London Stock Exchange. IT security vendor ...

Surface Web vs. Deep Web vs. Dark Web: Differences Explained

These three terms are often a source of confusion, especially in connection with cybercrime and where that comes from. If you think that search engines like Google (there are more!) know ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #47 Scam of the Week: Warn Your Users About Uber Phishing Attacks

Baffling FBI silence about Russian phishing attacks on US officials

WASHINGTON – The Associated Press revealed a baffling FBI silence about spear phishing attacks by Russian hackers on US officials like the former head of cybersecurity for the U.S. Air ...

Something funny happened on the way to repealing Net Neutrality rules...

Sorry to interrupt your Thanksgiving, but this one has had me laughing all afternoon. You might have seen the news that the Trump-era FCC is planning to repeal the Net Neutrality rules ...

Massive Phishing Attack On Businesses with Evil New Ransomware Strain

The Scarab ransomware strain is updated again and spreads via Necurs botnet in a massive 12.5 million campaign, mostly targeting .com domains. Scarab was spotted June 2017 for the first ...

Spam was nearly dead, then it became an essential tool for crime and came roaring back

John Christian at TheOutline wrote a post that made me take notice because it neatly summarized the current state of affairs and confirms our own experience: spam has morphed and is back ...

URGENT - If IT and Marketing are not freaking out about GDPR compliance, you are not paying attention

I found an article about GDPR compliance written by the fine folks of HubSpot, which we use ourselves here at KnowBe4 use for marketing automation. We have customers in Europe, so our ...

Uber Total Loss: 57 Million Records Stolen But Data Breach Was Hidden For A Year

Oh boy. Uber is known for pushing the limits of the law and has dozens of lawsuits pending against it, but this one went too far and now comes the reckoning. Bloomberg was first to report ...

We're Still Not Ready for GDPR? What is Wrong With Us?

Sara Peters, Senior Editor at Darkreading wrote an excellent article about GDPR. It is both reprimanding and encouraging to get off our collective butts and do something about GDPR very ...