NSA's Monstermind Aims To Detect And Stop Cyber Attacks Instantly

Aug 15, 2014 4:08:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

WIRED magazine had the scoop, by directly talking to Edward Snowden recently. An NSA program known as MonsterMind, currently under development, is being designed to detect and stop cyber ...

Tenn. Firm Sues Bank Over $327K Cyberheist

Aug 13, 2014 1:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware: The next 12 months

Aug 11, 2014 2:05:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Since September 2013, ransomware has become vicious and has inspired several copycats. At the time of this writing, summer 2014, the very first strains of second-generation ransomware ...

Security Companies Help Users Recover Files Locked by CryptoLocker

Aug 11, 2014 10:02:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at FireEye and Fox-IT have managed to obtain the private encryption keys that the malware uses to lock files.

Scam Of The Week: "For Sale: CyberVor False Sense Of Security"

Aug 9, 2014 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Are the credentials of one of your users among the stash of the 1.2 billion stolen passwords? A small Internet security company will tell you for just a 120 bucks per year. Their ...

Heads-Up: Second Generation Ransomware In The Wild

Jul 28, 2014 1:46:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week, Fedor Sinitisyn, blogger and security researcher for Kaspersky posted something worrisome. He reported that the Angler Exploit Kit was delivering a new second-generation type ...

DELL Warns Against Social Engineering

Jul 26, 2014 9:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dell has its own news site called Tech Page One. A few days ago they had a new article that started with: "Human errors that aid social engineers. The weakest links in computer networks ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: "Transportation Manager"

Jul 20, 2014 4:14:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Unscrupulous eastern European cyber mafias are preying on U.S. workers that try to make ends meet and look for a second (or third) job. This is not a new scam, but it is sticking up its ...

New Cellphone Phishing Hack Pulls Data Out Of Computer Over Air

Jun 16, 2014 4:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is from a few weeks ago, and I only just got to it. Hackers can exfiltrate data via a cellphone and no longer need the Internet to invade and control a system, Ben Gurion University ...

$440,000 Cyberheist Victim Now Needs To Pay Bank's Legal Fees

Jun 16, 2014 2:30:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Talk about adding insult to injury. Brian Krebs has the update, he's been reporting on the legal gray area when cyber mafia steals hundreds of thousands out of a company's bank account. ...

Scam Of The Week: eBay Password Reset Phishing Emails

May 23, 2014 1:10:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ok, unless you were on an Internet-free vacation (fat chance); you have heard that eBay managed to lose all its 145 million credentials.

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 20 CryptoLocker Goes Spear-Phishing

May 20, 2014 9:15:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 20

Elite Hackers Develop Cybercrime Attack Kits As Market Matures

May 17, 2014 7:40:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, in the Wall Street Journal, an article told the story of a software product called blackshades that experts call a "rat" (Remote Access Trojan) which was commercially sold to cyber ...

Scam Of The Week: Fake Purchase Orders

May 16, 2014 12:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This could be a very expensive scam to fall for, so keep on reading.

NISTs New Approach to Cybersecurity Standards

May 14, 2014 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Applying Engineering Values to IT Security. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing new cybersecurity standards based on the same principles engineers use to ...

Are You Being Targeted By Hot Foreign Spies?

May 12, 2014 1:43:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ready to be hit upon by the likes of Anna Chapman? MI5 in the UK warned that foreign spy agencies are targeting IT workers within big organizations as a means of gaining privileged access ...

Malware Only Lives For A Few Hours

May 12, 2014 10:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Rob Rachwald and Zheng Bu at FireEye came up with some interesting observations: "At FireEye, we look at hundreds of malware samples daily, and, in a recent talk at RSA Conference, Zheng ...

Shocker Symantec Admits That Antivirus Is Dead

May 5, 2014 9:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An article in the Wall Street Journal of May 5, 2014 summarized what I have been talking about these last few years. 25 years ago, Symantec was one of the first IT security companies to ...

Phishing campaign uses VoIP to steal card data

Apr 30, 2014 1:39:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

An Eastern European Cyber Mafia has been found to run a multi-year campaign that targets small U.S. banks and credit unions with a sophisticated VoIP phishing scheme (aka vishing) to ...

Verizon's New 2014 Data Breach Report: Summary

Apr 27, 2014 11:35:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In IT, we are subject to help desk tickets and putting out fires. The problem with this is that most of these are short-term fixes. It is usually about last week's downtime, today's ...

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