We report on the latest trends in cybercrime to help you stay informed and aware of what the current threat landscape looks like.
[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 ...
The fake cashier's check scam has gotten more sophisticated. Cathy Bussewitz at the pressdemocrat site reported on this one: "It usually starts when a seller posts a big-ticket item on ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="LeakedIn"][/caption] Never 'check' your password. Change it! The last few weeks, it came to light that some major websites were ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Tracy Kitten"][/caption]It's not all bad news! Tracy Kitten over at BankInfoSecurity reported on a positive trend. "Banks are doing a ...
Samantha Murphy at Mashable wrote: "Shred-It conducted a survey among 1,136 U.S. small business owners with companies of fewer than 100 employees, and 100 corporate-level executives who ...
Foxnews reported on June 15, 2012: "Cyberbombs are the new atom bombs." "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned Friday that the race to build and deploy cyberweapons -- secret ...
The cyberweapon genie is out of the bottle, and the U.S. is engaged in a cyberwar. Now it becomes clear why the Government has been trying to get private industry to agree to certain ...
