PAYCHEX: 60% Of Hacked SMBs Are Out Of Business 6 Months Later

Jan 23, 2016 11:54:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Paychex wrote a great article about the urgency of creating a cyber security culture in your business. This is excellent ammo to send to your C-level execs: "Creating a cyber security ...

TalkTalk Hackers Demanded $122K in Bitcoin

Oct 24, 2015 10:50:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

TalkTalk, a British phone and broadband provider with more than four million customers, disclosed Friday that intruders had hacked its Web site and may have stolen personal and financial ...

[VIDEO] Hacking the Chip & Pin card technology is easy

Oct 16, 2015 10:07:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The banks are promoting that the so called new "Chip & Pin" cards are much safer. They are also called the EMV chip system and touted to be secure. However, this technology is 15 ...

The Meaning Of The U.S. and China Hacking Agreement

Sep 27, 2015 10:38:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last Friday, after years of data breaches by Chinese hackers, many months of negotiations and occasional threats from the White House, while China's President Xi was in DC, the U.S. and ...

Expert Russians Hackers Use Satellites To Hide Amazing Exploits

Sep 13, 2015 9:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ouroboros, one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking groups with close ties to the Russian government, has been accused of hijacking unencrypted commercial satellite communications. ...

Pentagon Hacked Again, Compromising Employee Financial Info

Sep 12, 2015 11:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers infiltrated the Pentagon food court's computer system, compromising the credit and debit card info of an unknown number of employees. Lt. Col. Tom Crosson, a Defense Department ...

2015 U.S Hacking Incidents More Than Previous Two Years Combined

Sep 12, 2015 10:04:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In 2015 U.S. organizations are seeing a significant spike in hacking incidents. Over 122 Million records breached just from hacking alone. That is not counting all of the other incidents ...

The Inside Story Of The Biggest Hack In History

Aug 9, 2015 9:44:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It was known inside the InfoSec community, but now more details have been made public through CNN after a BlackHat 2015 presentation: "Three years ago, the world witnessed the worst hack ...

Criminal Hackers Steal Your Database? See You In Court

Jul 3, 2015 1:45:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Jim Flynn wrote: "Helping to demonstrate that every cloud has a silver lining if you look hard enough, hacking has proven to be of great benefit to the legal profession. That's because ...

World's Most Famous Hacker Kevin Mitnick: IoT Is Exploitable

Jun 26, 2015 11:09:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Clad in a blue suit and conservative necktie, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick no longer looks the part of the precocious teen who started hacking into computer systems while ...

10 Hacking Facts / How They Impact You [Infographic]

Apr 4, 2015 12:01:41 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing concerns for business and consumers, especially when it comes to social media. So much personal identifiable information (PII) exists across the ...

China Finally Admits It Has A Hacker Army

Mar 20, 2015 2:45:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

China finally admits it has special cyber warfare units — and a lot of them. This is the "advanced persistent threat" cyber security experts have been pointing to.

NY Times: North Koreans hacked Sony with spear-phishing attacks.

Jan 19, 2015 1:53:12 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The next revelation about the Sony Picture hack: The NSA was already inside the North Korean's networks and could have warned Sony about the pending attack.

Cybersecurity Top Risk Consideration In Board Room

Dec 31, 2014 2:23:30 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Wall Street Journal polled its readers and asked them to rate the top compliance issues of 2014. The answers were very interesting!

Schneier: Sony Hackers May Have Had Inside Help

Dec 31, 2014 1:11:22 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Well-known IT Security guru Bruce Schneier commented on recent discoveries related to the Sony Hack. First of all, an analysis of the timestamps on some of the leaked documents shows that ...

Phishing Attack on German Steel Factory System Caused Massive Damage

Dec 23, 2014 3:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers breached security of a German steel mill's network and caused considerable damage by manipulating the controls of a blast furnace. The attackers gained access to the network ...

Staples: 6-Month Malware Breach, 1.16 Million Cards

Dec 20, 2014 11:36:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Office supply chain Staples Inc. today finally acknowledged that a malware intrusion by hackers this year at some of its stores resulted in a credit card breach. The company now says some ...

How Was Sony Pictures Hacked?

Dec 8, 2014 7:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Mandia, who was hired as the forensics expert wrote in a letter to Sony's CEO that the breach was unprecedented, well-planned and carried out by an "organized group". It's the most ...

Sony The First To Be Hit With Destructive Payload

Dec 2, 2014 9:34:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Sony has been hacked several times, and should have learned their lesson a while ago, but no. This time it is really bad though. Late yesterday the FBI warned U.S. business that the ...

Home Depot Hackers Also Steal 53 Million Email Addresses

Nov 7, 2014 8:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As if it wasn't bad enough to lose 56 million credit card accounts, now Home Depot has to admit it also lost 53 million email addresses. This gives the bad guys a fabulous opportunity to ...

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