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CyberheistNews Vol 2, #20 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Warn Your Users: NY Traffic Ticket Phish This phish is a ...
Symantec contributor Fred Gutierrez shows clearly in this blog post why it can be deadly to click on a .JPG file: "Cybercriminals have continuously evolved their methods throughout the ...
Matthew Hansen, World-Herald Staff Writer just wrote a great article that illustrates what I have been warning about these last years. It starts out like this: "Imagine for a moment that ...
Chris Boyd over at GFI wrote: "If we survive the Mayan Apocalypse of 2012, does that mean were technically immortals? Ive no idea, but it will probably mean we dont see quite as many ...
Kevin Mitnick sent this phish over. It's a classic attempt to get you to avaid a problem, but the moment you click this link, life will become a lot more painful. So... Stop. Look. Think ...
This week, the new APWG Global Phishing Report is being today at the Anti-Phishing Working Group meeting in Prague. This report is published every six months, detailing how phishers are ...
Group-IB, a leading Russian cybercrime investigation and computer forensics company and LETA Group subsidiary, this week announced a 28-page report on the Russian cybercrime market in ...
Jaikumar Vijayan over at Computerworld observed correctly: "A recent data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 280,000 people served as yet another reminder of the ...
Bill Brenner at CSO Magazine is quoting IBM ISS Security Strategist Joshua Corman who has been on a crusade with his 8 Dirty Secrets campaign. Here they are and I'm quoting Dirty Secret ...
An ordinary piece of spam slips through the filters, and you see a gorgeous sandy beach with palm trees. It's an enticing ad for a vacation to a tropical island, basically a big picture ...
Neil Rubenking, who has been writing about antivirus for 30 years now, came up with an excellent article about what to do when your personal email or social media account. This is a ...
IT pros surveyed by Network World and SolarWinds shared a range of tactics for handling the mobile device management challenge. Mobile devices are multiplying and -- sanctioned or ...
Last week you may have read a headline that blared "100 million TVs will be Web-connected by 2016." Regular readers of this blog know I'm always on the lookout for new threats, so the ...
The Criminal Tracker app by U.S. Publications Inc says that a study by the U.S. Department of Justice has revealed that sex offenders are four times more likely to re-offend than other ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Vaccine"][/caption] Simon Edwards created a great blog post about this April 12, 2012. He started out with: " Once upon a time, ...
Cybercriminals are as organized and industrious as any legitimate business. Case in point: exploit kits, also known as crimepacks, which bad guys can purchase and which make infecting ...
Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered new Android malware that is controlled via SMS that can do a number of things ...
Roger Grimes made this remark on InfoWorld when he commented on the 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report that was released last week. What he said was: "You should enable event ...
