A Serious Legal Liability: Bad or No Security Awareness Training

Oct 28, 2013 7:45:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Please read this article and then forward it to the head of your legal department or the person in your organization who is responsible for compliance. Recently, the Department of Health ...

What's Next for IT Debate #3 Does Infrastructure Really Matter?

Sep 5, 2013 10:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You can see and hear me September 17th at 1pm, 10am PT. The subject is: "Does Infrastructure Really Matter -- What clients don't know can hurt them"

April 8, 2014: WinXPGeddon

Aug 26, 2013 4:01:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If you still run Windows XP April 2014, you've got a timebomb on your hands if that system is still connected to the Internet. Stand-alone systems are a bit less of a risk.

Spear-phishing attackers vandalize CNN, TIME and Wash Post

Aug 16, 2013 8:40:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You would think that by now journalists and people in media and advertising would be on the alert for social engineering red flags. But no. Syrian hacktivists sent a spear-phishing attack ...

Liberty and Security - it's not an either/or choice

Jul 31, 2013 2:21:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

My good friend Mac Graham just sent me this article that I think is thoughtful, balanced and provides a very interesting solution for this "Liberty versus Security" problem. (Full ...

Congressional Aides Targeted By Spear-phishing Attacks

Jul 19, 2013 10:05:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Reuters just reported that Congressional aides in the Senate and House of Representatives said on Thursday that they were notified of a potential security risk involving email and other ...

The One Security Technology That Actually Works: Application Control

Jul 16, 2013 4:05:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

July 16, 2013, Roger Grimes wrote an article in InfoWorld that was straight out of my mind. He said: "Antivirus, perimeter defense, and network monitoring are jokes. But whitelisting ...

System Administrator Appreciation Day Is Coming Soon!

Jun 24, 2013 10:51:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of an important, upcoming holiday. No, it is not the 4th of July (although that is almost here, too)... it's System Administrator Appreciation ...

POLL: "YOU are in IT. Is it OK what the NSA is doing?"

Jun 10, 2013 8:52:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll asked Americans if they consider the NSA's practice of obtaining telephone calls and email through secret court orders "acceptable." As the ...

The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices

May 27, 2013 10:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

(updated June 17, 2015) You may not be aware that there is a scale of seven deadly vices connected to social engineering. The deadliest social engineering attacks are the ones that have ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3 #20

May 13, 2013 5:55:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Latest Attack Trend: 'Persistent Spear Phishing'

Don't Get Hijacked On Social Media

May 8, 2013 11:12:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

John Mello over at Chief Security Magazine wrote today: "Online social networkers invite data marauders to compromise their accounts by choosing a convenient but risky option offered by ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19

May 7, 2013 9:10:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19 Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream

REVIEWS: Kevin Mitnick Home Internet Security Course

Apr 30, 2013 2:20:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now that the Kevin Mitnick Home Internet Security Course is released and commercially available we thought you might be interested in hearing what people tell us when we ask them what ...

LivingSocial Hacked. Make sure that password is not shared!

Apr 27, 2013 3:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing

Mar 21, 2013 7:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing. It was to be expected. Cyber criminals now are able to scrape your followers from Twitter, and send you a Direct Message (DM) supposedly coming from ...

The Problem With Our Security Models

Mar 18, 2013 8:53:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Georgia Tech Researchers Try To Stop Spear-phishing

Mar 18, 2013 7:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Georgia Tech correctly identified that the most challenging threat facing corporate networks today is “spear phishing.” “Spear phishing is the most popular way to get into a corporate ...

28 Percent of Data Breaches Lead to Fraud

Mar 7, 2013 2:29:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyberwar? Time To Calm Down A Bit

Mar 6, 2013 9:46:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The media has a field day with this whole China / Mandiant report, but there are a few issues being confused here. It's all good and well to make the public aware of the fact that foreign ...

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