8 Signs You Have Been Hacked

Jul 18, 2012 6:35:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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Security Is Not Only Training It Is Culture

Jul 16, 2012 6:25:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We all went to school, but how would you do if you were asked to retake your finals? Neither would I. Education fades unless it is regularly reinforced. And even the reinforcement is ...

VIDEO: The new 90-second Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training Elevator Pitch

Jul 11, 2012 7:28:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="455" caption="Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 90-second Video"][/caption] July 2012, KnowBe4 officially released Kevin Mitnick Security ...

I Was Interviewed On TV Thursday

Jul 9, 2012 9:15:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Stu TV Interview"][/caption] Cyber threats reported by U.S. energy companies, public water districts and other infrastructure ...

Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training

Jul 9, 2012 6:28:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training"][/caption] I am super excited to officially announce we have released the new ...

Court Ruling Could Be Boon to Cyberheist Victims

Jul 6, 2012 4:09:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="310" caption="Court Ruling Boon To Cyberheist Victims"][/caption] BrianKrebs reported some very good news. A decision handed down by a federal ...

Cybercriminals Sniff Out Vulnerable Firms

Jul 6, 2012 2:41:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[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 ...

Training Fragmentation Causes Knowledge Gap

Jul 4, 2012 5:06:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Training Fragmentation"][/caption] More and more, you see training companies promote their security awareness training products as ...

FBI: High-tech Espionage Costs 13 Billlion

Jul 2, 2012 8:41:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Scam Of The Week Payroll Phish

Jul 1, 2012 3:52:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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. ...

Malware Metastasizes

Jul 1, 2012 3:13:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Bank Settles With California Cyberheist Victim

Jun 26, 2012 8:20:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

60 Million Euro Stolen In Biggest Cyberheist Ever

Jun 26, 2012 8:09:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[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 ...

Need to protect a critical machine? Use Whitelisting, not Antivirus

Jun 24, 2012 9:46:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="2002 Good vs. Bad"][/caption] And now a mainstream antivirus vendor is saying this too. First of all, I have no dog in this fight, ...

OMG - I did not know it was THIS horrible.

Jun 21, 2012 10:46:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Microsoft : "Civilian casualties inevitable in government cyber war"

Jun 21, 2012 3:00:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Alastair Stevenson at the V3 site quoted Microsoft: "Cyber attacks such as Duqu, Stuxnet and Flame will inevitably hurt private companies and innocent people as well as governments, ...

Kevin Mitnick Partners With KnowBe4

Jun 18, 2012 3:55:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Mitnick, at One Time the World's Most-Wanted Hacker, Joins Forces With Leading Internet Security Awareness Training Company KnowBe4, LLC CLEARWATER, Fla., June 18, 2012 -- Internet ...

Retelling a Password Nightmare in the Wake of the LinkedIn Password Leak

Jun 7, 2012 6:34:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Alan Shimel tell us an enlightening and cautionary tale how his password was hijacked and how much time it took him to get it all back under control. This is a warmly recommended read ...

Why antivirus companies failed to catch Flame and Stuxnet

Jun 5, 2012 2:57:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Arstechnica picked up the blog post of F-Secure's Chief Research Officer: A/V outfits were out of their league. Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. He has been ...

Apple Releases Guide To iOS Security

Jun 4, 2012 8:50:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Techcrunch wrote: "Apple has introduced a guide to iOS security, which was posted to Apple.com sometime in late May, but is just now being noticed outside the Apple developer community. ...

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