46 Percent Of Hospital’S Hacked Money Gone For Good

Jun 7, 2013 1:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Chelan County Treasurer David Griffiths says Leavenworth's hospital district stands to recover less than half the $1 million stolen in an online banking theft. About $415,000 has been ...

Cybercrime Attack Vector Of Choice: Employees

May 16, 2013 11:06:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, employees are the low hanging fruit for cybercrime. Organizations counter this with what is called 'Security Awareness Training' (SAT), but modern SAT is far removed from how it ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3 #20

May 13, 2013 5:55:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Latest Attack Trend: 'Persistent Spear Phishing'

1st Quarter 2013: 6.5 Million New Malware Strains Built

May 13, 2013 1:30:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Research Team of Panda Labs just reported that between January and March of this year, more than 6.5 million new malware strains were built, and that of those 75% were trojans. In ...

Don't Get Hijacked On Social Media

May 8, 2013 11:12:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

John Mello over at Chief Security Magazine wrote today: "Online social networkers invite data marauders to compromise their accounts by choosing a convenient but risky option offered by ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19

May 7, 2013 9:10:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19 Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream

Consumer Reports: 9.2 Million Phishing Victims Last Year

May 1, 2013 4:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Consumer Reports today came out with some numbers that should give you pause. 9.2 Million Americans fell victim to a phishing attack last year, and a whopping 58.2 Million had a malware ...

$1Million Cyberheist From Leavenworth Hospital

Apr 27, 2013 3:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Mitnick sent me an article that illustrates why it is needed to train all employees not to fall for hacker tricks: "Friday, April 26, 2013 - WENATCHEE — Hackers stole more than $1 ...

Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream

Apr 26, 2013 10:02:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

10 Tips To Secure Funding For A Security Program

Apr 21, 2013 3:54:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Over at the CSO site, Dominic Nessi, CIO for Los Angeles World Airports, outlines ten essential tips for getting your financial team on board with your security funding requests.

Why Your Tax Return Isn't Safe

Apr 13, 2013 8:52:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

That's the title of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece today by Cyrus R. Vance, Manhattan District Attorney.

Knowbe4 - CyberheistNews Vol 3, #14

Apr 3, 2013 3:48:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing

Mar 21, 2013 7:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing. It was to be expected. Cyber criminals now are able to scrape your followers from Twitter, and send you a Direct Message (DM) supposedly coming from ...

Security Awareness Training Controversy

Mar 20, 2013 5:39:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Problem With Our Security Models

Mar 18, 2013 8:53:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #12

Mar 18, 2013 8:07:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #11

Mar 11, 2013 9:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

How Phishing Attacks Are Evolving

Mar 7, 2013 3:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 09

Feb 25, 2013 7:32:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week - Target: IT

Feb 23, 2013 5:25:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, it's -you- specifically being targeted with a phishing attack. The bad guys know very well that the most powerful weapons are administrator's credentials, as those really are ...

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