Average Enterprise Is Hit by a Cyber Attack Every 1.5 Seconds

Mar 1, 2014 3:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

FireEye released its yearly Advanced Threat Report, and they did some interesting math. Enterprises are hit by cyber attacks on average once every 1.5 seconds, which is double from the ...

Knowbe4 CyberheistNews Vol 4, 07 SNEAK PEEK At New Site: HACKBUSTERS

Feb 18, 2014 9:05:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 07

SNEAK PEEK at hot new site HACKBUSTERS

Feb 14, 2014 11:51:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Announces HackBusters, A Curated IT Security News Site

NIST Releases Voluntary Cybersecurity Compliance Framework

Feb 13, 2014 4:12:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Online social engineering scams flourish around Valentine's Day

Feb 13, 2014 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Michael Cooney at Network World summarized the current scams doing the rounds related to online dating and romance sites. A good reminder that heartless con artists use social engineering ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06 Cryptolocker Scrambles Files Of US Law Firm

Feb 11, 2014 9:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06

Why Cybercrime Pays Off

Feb 5, 2014 11:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05

Feb 4, 2014 9:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05

FBI: The 10 Criminal Cyber Crime Professions

Feb 3, 2014 3:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Center for Cyber Forensics and Information Security (CCFIS) reported in a blog: "The FBI has recently classified the different 'professional positions' they have encountered in the ...

What Is The Deep Web 101

Jan 21, 2014 5:29:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Pierluigi Paganini wrote a great blog post today. The Deep Web (or Invisible Web) is all the information on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. It's HUGE. According ...

Firm Bankrupted by Cyberheist Sues Bank

Jan 8, 2014 11:53:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Eastern European Hackers Hit Target Phish Out 40M Credit Cards

Dec 19, 2013 8:16:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

During the Black Friday shopping week, tens of millions of credit and debit card records were "phished" out of Target. The data breach was nationwide, and has extended for as far as ...

The Antivirus Industry’s Dirty Little Secret

Nov 28, 2013 8:46:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[Updated 5/1/2016]. The Antivirus industry has a dirty little secret that they really don’t want anyone to know. Despite the claims of their marketing departments, their products are not ...

Inside The Adobe Databreach Disaster

Oct 7, 2013 9:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week Adobe announced probably the worst news ever for a tech company. Both their source code and customer lists had been stolen. EPIC FAIL!

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 40

Sep 30, 2013 5:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 40

FBI: “Beta Bot” malware kills your anti-virus and steals data

Sep 20, 2013 2:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, the FBI sent out a warning that a strain of malware known as "Beta Bot" can turn off your antivirus, stops access to the websites of antivirus vendors so that your antivirus ...

Scam Of The Week: Ransomware Uses Child Porn Threat

Sep 13, 2013 4:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Getting caught viewing child porn is a huge deal and instantly makes you an outcast in most western countries. Cybercriminals have cooked up a new way to blackmail people out of their ...

Cybercrime Automates Fake ID's For Spear-phishing

Aug 28, 2013 9:39:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today it was reported through several sources that a new Cybercrime-as-a-Service option is available: creation of fake scanned passports, ID cards, driver's licenses and fake scanned ...

Electronic ID cards join fight against phishing attacks

Aug 26, 2013 3:59:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing attacks are believed to have hit 37.3 million people last year, escalating online password theft 300%. To fight back against this type of cyberattack, a team of researchers at ...

New Cybercrime-as-a-Service: Unethical Pen-testing

Aug 25, 2013 3:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have talked about this a few times before, there is a well-developed $3 Billion underground economy specialized in cybercrime. Here is an example of a "promising" new criminal DIY ...

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Average Enterprise Is Hit by a Cyber Attack Every 1.5 Seconds

Knowbe4 CyberheistNews Vol 4, 07 SNEAK PEEK At New Site: HACKBUSTERS

SNEAK PEEK at hot new site HACKBUSTERS

NIST Releases Voluntary Cybersecurity Compliance Framework

Online social engineering scams flourish around Valentine's Day

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06 Cryptolocker Scrambles Files Of US Law Firm

Why Cybercrime Pays Off

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05

FBI: The 10 Criminal Cyber Crime Professions

What Is The Deep Web 101

Firm Bankrupted by Cyberheist Sues Bank

Eastern European Hackers Hit Target Phish Out 40M Credit Cards

The Antivirus Industry’s Dirty Little Secret

Inside The Adobe Databreach Disaster

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 40

FBI: “Beta Bot” malware kills your anti-virus and steals data

Scam Of The Week: Ransomware Uses Child Porn Threat

Cybercrime Automates Fake ID's For Spear-phishing

Electronic ID cards join fight against phishing attacks

New Cybercrime-as-a-Service: Unethical Pen-testing

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