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August 15, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Survey of 2600 IT Pros: "Password Procedures Still Are A Cyber Security Fail"

After the NIST passwords bombshell, we surveyed 2,600 IT professionals to find out how they were managing passwords. The answers show that IT Pros are generally receptive to the proposed ...

August 13, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

OK, Who -Is- This Stu Guy Anyway? [VIDEO]

I had a freelance video PR crew follow me one day at Black Hat, and here are two short clips that will give you an idea of who the heck I am.

August 13, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

APT28 Uses Spear Phishing and NSA EternalBlue Exploit To Attack Hotel Wi-Fi

Russian APT28 (aka the Fancy Bear hacking group) is harnessing EternalBlue; NSA's Windows SMB exploit which made the WannaCry ransomware and Petya so effective — and are using it to ...

August 13, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Tripwire Black Hat Survey: "68% of Pros Felt Cyber Security Lacking After WannaCry & Petya Attacks"

Over two-thirds of Infosec Pros who were asked at Black Hat if they felt their organizations had made the necessary cyber security improvements since the WannaCry and Petya attacks ...

August 12, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

New Report: Ransomware Attack Downtime, Not Ransom Demand, is the Business Killer

I have been saying this here for the last few years, and I am encouraged to see it now confirmed by a new survey from our friends at Malwarebytes. They released their “Second Annual State ...

August 12, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Cyber-Attacks Soar by a Quarter as Phishing Dominates

Cyber-attacks were up by a quarter in Q2 2017, with a surprising twist: global manufacturing is now the top target. The report from NTT Security also shows that phishing is the most ...

August 12, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Locky Ransomware Returns with Phishing Campaign Pushing The Diablo6 Variant

Our friend Larry Abrams at Bleepingcomputer wrote August 9th: "Through a large malspam campaign, Locky is back and currently being heavily distributed worldwide. While Locky was at one ...

August 12, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

HealthCare Industry Needs Prescription For Next Wave of Ransomware Threats

According to a recent article in HealthCare IT News, "Ransomware 2.0: It's Coming, and Healthcare Needs to get Prepared", the next wave of ransomware may be much harder to spot, -- and ...

August 11, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

We Love The PhishMe Free Idea!

Yesterday, PhishMe's CEO Rohyt Belani came out with a great new initiative. They have created a "lite" version of their platform — they call it simplified — and they are giving it away ...

August 10, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Top White House officials fall for prankster social engineering tricks

A UK-based email prankster used social engineering tactics to fool several top White House officials into responding to his messages, including the Trump administration’s cybersecurity ...

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