We report on the latest trends in cybercrime to help you stay informed and aware of what the current threat landscape looks like.
Internet threat management company M86 Security recently announced a brand-new small business security suite that promises to help small businesses get a workable handle on their security ...
This is a a good news/bad news blog. The good news is that because April 15 falls on a Friday this year, the filing deadline has been extended until April 18. The bad news is with tax ...
An interesting tidbit has emerged from the eCrime Trends Report for Q4-2010 from online security firm Internet Identity (aka IID). Over the Christmas holidays, an online payment ...
According to this story at CSOOnline. com (" More Mobile Spyware Hits Android"), security software firm NetQin Mobile, Inc. has captured a pair of new spyware programs from the wild that ...
[caption id="attachment_343" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The latest IC3 Internet Crime Report makes for interesting reading"] [/caption] Last week, the Internet Crime ...
In a recent story for PC World, veteran security writer (and former About.com security guru) Tony Bradley's headline says it all " Cybercrime: A Recession-Proof Growth Industry." In that ...
In its most recent Threats Report for Q4 2010 (.PDF), network security company McAfee points out what they call "a steady growth of threats to mobile platforms," with smartphones ...
[caption id="attachment_334" align="aligncenter" width="444" caption="Story Header from YourMoneyIsNotSafeInTheBank.org"] [/caption] As reported on YourMoneyIsNotSafeInTheBank.org, ...
The latest edition of the "Your Money Is Not Safe In The Bank" newsletter (sign up on their home page) takes a look at the new authentication guidelines about to be issued from the ...
We're working on a book here at KnowBe4.com, and it features Cyberheist as the first word in its title. Here's a new snippet from the book, this one taken from Chapter 14 "Managing Online ...
As we mentioned in Cyberheist Snippet 1 and Cyberheist Snippet 2, we're working on a book here at KnowBe4.com, and it features Cyberheist as the first word in its title. Here's a third ...
As we've mentioned repeatedly in this blog, the FDIC does not insure SMBs against losses to fraudulent account access the same way that it covers individual bank accounts. This has left ...
We read with great interest in a recent edition of The Economist about the theft of carbon emission credits through the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), a market overseen by the European ...
[caption id="attachment_262" align="aligncenter" width="250" caption="Cyberheist book cover"] [/caption] As we mentioned in Cyberheist Snippet 1, we're working on a book here at ...
The biggest fundamental problem with online financial activity is that for most of us, an account name and a password is all that's needed to gain access to accounts and account controls. ...
Shoot! Anybody with a smidgen of Web security history under his or her belt winces as soon as the word "cross" comes up as a modifier, thanks to the legions of exploits based on ...
The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday (2/5/2011) that it learned that the computer network for the Nasdaq OMX Group has been repeatedly (and at least somewhat successfully) ...
We can hardly do a better job than the Internet Crime Complaint Center's (IC3's) Safety Poster when it comes to alerting businesses and individuals about the dangers of unsafe Internet ...
We're working on our own book here at KnowBe4.com. It's going to be called Cyberheist: The biggest financial threat facing American business since the meltdown of 2008. The book will be a ...
Here at KnowBe4 we focus on Internet Security Awareness, and provide a battery of information, services, and training to help raise awareness of potential threats and loss that uninformed ...
