Finally Defined: 'Advanced Persistent Threat'

Apr 2, 2012 4:30:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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Malicious Office documents target Mac OS X

Mar 29, 2012 3:32:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Trendmicro reported: "We have recently analyzed a series of emails sent to specific users that leverage a certain prominent socio-political issue. One of these messages is about the ...

Shield your business from cybercrooks

Mar 23, 2012 4:00:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Anne Fisher, Editor of New York's Executive Inbox wrote: "Can you recognize a potentially disastrous breach of your computer systems security when you see it? Lets find out with two ...

Look Ma, malware without files!

Mar 21, 2012 4:38:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wow, instead of an exploit dropping a file onto the file system and running it... a DLL is injected straight into memory from the exploit, leaving nothing to scan on the harddrive. Writen ...

The Cridex malware trojan hides in fake LinkedIn invitations.

Mar 20, 2012 9:10:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Cridex malware trojan hides in fake LinkedIn invitations. Take care with those invites! GFI Labs recently discovered a LinkedIn email phishing scam that installs a banking trojan. It ...

Its Tax Scam Season

Mar 16, 2012 4:44:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Warn everyone that 'Tax Scam Season' is upon us, and that no one should respond to anything tax-related via email. The IRS does not use email or social media, don't fall for refund offers ...

The Top 5 Executive Spear-phishing Scams

Mar 13, 2012 6:30:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We recommend you copy and paste this section, and send it to your executive team, with a warning that they might be targeted with spear-phishing attacks. They need to 'Stop, Look, Think' ...

Internet Security is Becoming a Priority Business Issue

Sep 30, 2011 5:27:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing, the New Sport for Teenage Cybercriminals

Sep 28, 2011 8:32:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercrime: Getting Robbed Is Not What It Used To Be

Sep 26, 2011 9:04:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1378" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Old Fashioned Robber"][/caption] Way back in your grand-pappys day (before cybercrime), a bank-robber or garden ...

Two Hackers Give Up The Cybercrime Life

Sep 23, 2011 2:40:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1372" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Chinese Hackers"][/caption] A pair of notorious Chinese hackers who left the dark side are now urging other hackers in ...

Beware the Spy-Eye Cybercrime Wave

Sep 21, 2011 7:50:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="170" caption="cybercrime"][/caption] Cybercrime is a lucrative business which offers criminals very high returns in exchange for ...

White House Takes On the New Cybercrime Mob

Sep 19, 2011 1:27:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1362" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="White House - Cybercrime"][/caption] The White House has decided that it's time to take hacking seriously, asking for ...

Cybercrime Theft Topples $388 Billion Annually

Sep 16, 2011 1:16:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1357" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Cybercrime Losses"][/caption] U.S. government agencies are getting better at sharing information about cybercrime with ...

Cybercrime: An Act of War

Sep 14, 2011 2:47:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1352" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="cyber act of war"][/caption] Efforts to chip away at the U.S. budget deficit are making life tougher for companies ...

The War on Cybercrime Goes Beyond Your IT Department

Sep 12, 2011 2:45:10 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1340" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="cyber war"][/caption] Although the threat from cyber criminals has existed for decades, the sheer volume of successful ...

$13 Million Florida Cyberheist

Sep 9, 2011 12:55:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

News that a Florida-based bank has been left holding the baby in a $13 million ATM fraud highlights the increasingly complex world of cybercrime and the multi-faceted layers of security ...

Survey Says: Cybercrime is on the Rise

Sep 6, 2011 4:06:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1319" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="online thief"][/caption] Symantec's State of the Security report highlights how many organizations are responding to ...

Cybercrime Defense Lacking in Most Organizations

Sep 5, 2011 3:38:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1314" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Cybercrime Defense"][/caption] Your protection against cybercrime is not as effective as you might think based on the ...

The Cloud and Cybercrime Risk Factor

Sep 1, 2011 12:47:26 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1308" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Cloud Security"] [/caption] New applications such as cloud computing and virtualization are becoming increasingly ...

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