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PDF 0-day Vulnerability Being Exploited In The Wild

Last week, Adobe warned customers that a few new exploits that target Acrobat Reader were being exploited in the wild. Keep an eye out for patches that are expected soon. The exploits are ...
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Which Antivirus Has The Best Phishing Protection? Surprise!

I ran across some very interesting research recently done by NSS Labs. They compared twelve of the most popular antivirus engines, they call them endpoint protection products (EPP) and ...
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New CyberSec Executive Order IT Impact Zero

Last Tuesday, the White House issued the long awaited CyberSec Executive Order, which makes an attempt to outline policies that will protect US organizations against cyber-attacks and ...
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Cyber Bullying

KnowBe4 is a market leader in security awareness training for employees in an office environment. However, when we asked people who finished the training what they thought, they said they ...
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CyberheistNews vol 3,

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #7
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CyberheistNews vol 3, #6

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CyberheistNews vol3, #05

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CyberheistNews Vol3, #3

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Here are the 20 people that did the Beta first

And got their $20 Amazon Gift card sent to them today. Again, thanks very much for participating in the Kevin Mitnick Home Internet Security Training. The overall feedback was incredibly ...
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CyberheistNews vol3, #02

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Scam Of The Week Hotmail MSN

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Scam Of The Week Hotmail MSN[/caption] It's a new year and you'd like to think that your users are getting smarter about clicking on ...
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RUSH Do a Free $30 Internet Security Course and Get a $20 Amazon Gift Cert

Hi All, we have some super exciting news. Tons of the people that did our enterprise course said they had learned a bunch of scary things, and immediately asked how they could share this ...
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Deloitte Study shows 88 percent thinks they are cyber threat safe

Oh my. Deloite UK did a bunch of interviews with small and medium organizations which showed that a whopping 88% think they are safe and will not be attacked from the outside. Talk about ...
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Scam Example: Amazon Marketplace

Josh More, a Senior Security Consultant at RJS smart security was in the market for a new camera, and was almost scammed when he saw a deal on Amazon that was only $1,836.73 instead of ...
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CyberheistNews vol3, #01

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Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013

Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013 - First Quantity, Now Quality: In 2013, cybercrime will focus more on quality than before. They will opt for increasingly smart malware, and more ...
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LogMeIn and DocuSign Investigate Breach Claims

Customers of remote PC administration service LogMeIn.com and electronic signature provider DocuSign.com are complaining of a possible breach of customer information after receiving ...
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CyberheistNews vol2, #53

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How to Find if a Website Is Legitimate

1) Call, write, or email the website using the contact information provided on their website to check for legitimacy. If you reach an automated voice messaging system, find that the ...
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Malware called Eurograbber steals 36 million Euros

If cybercrime would be promoting their malware, for sure they would call their EuroGrabber 'next-generation' Zeus crimeware. This is (a lot) more than your run-of-the-mill banking Trojan. ...
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