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CyberheistNews Vol 2, #29 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] 15 Social Media Scams Not just -one- Scam of the week, but a ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Online Dating Scam"][/caption] Beware, another honey trap is doing the rounds trying to snare people. Dancho Danchev was the one to ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="190" caption="Dave Aitel"][/caption] A bunch of people asked me this, and sent me the link to Dave Aitel's blog post which he titled: "Why you ...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="290" caption="Cyberheist Smokescreen"][/caption]
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Bank Sues Customer"][/caption] Tracy Kitten at BankInfo Security reported on this: "In another legal wrangling over liability linked ...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="560" caption="Small Firms Cyberheist Victims"][/caption] I could have written this headline myself. But I didn't, it was Sarah Needleman at the ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Cisco Cloud Calamity"][/caption] Cisco's Linksys marketing division got themselves soaking wet. Customers that own the Linksys E2700, ...
Michael Cooney over at NetworkWorld came up with a number: 13. "Driven by the general ease of stealing electronically stored data and the reality of growing global businesses, US ...
The nakedsecurity blog over at Sophos highlighted a new phishing scam that would be good to alert your employees about. The bad guys are pretending to be payroll processing company ADP. ...
A few days ago I wrote about a 60 million Euro cyberheist. I have been digging into this a bit more, as it's the most advanced attack yet. Cybercrime is not revolutionary, it clearly ...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="KnowBe4 Philosophy"][/caption] We are happy to go against the grain. Were not a massive developer that turns out bloatware year ...
Finally, a positive outcome in a cyberheist lawsuit. Brian Krebs reported that a Professional Business Bank settled with a Village View Escrow Inc, a California cyberheist victim. A ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="390" caption="60 million Cyberheist"][/caption] This is exactly what I have been warning against in my book cyberheist. McAfee and Guardian ...
Brian Krebs is on a roll. Here is why pill pushing spam pays off. "Consumer demand for cheap prescription drugs sold through spam-advertised Web sites shows no sign of abating, according ...
More from Brian Krebs's astounding blog post today. "As the chart I compiled above indicates, attackers are switching the lure or spoofed brand quite often, but popular choices include ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="370" caption="InstantRevert, a powerful new system admin tool"][/caption] KnowBe4 has released a powerful new system admin tool: InstantRevert. ...
Kevin sent the folowing letter to 1,442 people that over the last 3 years filled out the his contact us form on the www.mitnicksecurity.com website. Of these, 1082 were delivered. Now, ...
From Facebook phishing lures to Twitter and Tumblr hoaxes, here are 15 scams to watch out for on social networking sites. CSO online took the time to put this slide show together and it's ...
