Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Broken?

Sep 17, 2013 4:39:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steve Ragan over at CSO Magazine wrote:

Scam Of The Week: "U.S. Starts Bombing Syria"

Sep 7, 2013 3:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This one is crafty. There is a fake CNN spam being sent with a subject that reads: "The United States began bombing!" in Syria, but clicking on it will likely result in the workstation ...

Electronic ID cards join fight against phishing attacks

Aug 26, 2013 3:59:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing attacks are believed to have hit 37.3 million people last year, escalating online password theft 300%. To fight back against this type of cyberattack, a team of researchers at ...

Cyber risk weighs heavy on minds of execs

Aug 21, 2013 4:26:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tony Bradley at CSO Mag has a good analysis: " There is good news and bad new stemming from the Lloyd’s of London Risk Index 2013 report. The good news is that cyber risk is gaining more ...

Are Your Email Addresses On A Russian Phishing Site?

Aug 18, 2013 11:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are finding many U.S. commercial email addresses at the Russianemailsworld.boommer.ru website. It is really a 'staging' area for emails to be posted by the criminal underground. They ...

Scam Of The Week: Christian Singles

Jul 28, 2013 1:21:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Employees the Weakest Link of Cyber Security, Report Finds

Jul 22, 2013 10:31:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antivirus company Bitdefender reported something important. Here is their blog post of July 17, 2003.

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 ...

Phishing Attack: Your Twitter friend may not really be your friend

Jul 15, 2013 2:03:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a new phishing campaign doing the rounds trying to get your Twitter login credentials. The scam arrives as a direct messages to prospective victims from one of their contacts. ...

7 reasons for security awareness failure

Jul 11, 2013 12:04:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ira Winkler and Samantha Manke just wrote a great article at the CSO site about why security awareness programs fail. They started out with: "There is a great dichotomy in Security ...

CTO of media company faked-out employees with "phishing" emails

Jul 8, 2013 10:54:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a fascinating article in SC Magazine dated July 3, 2013 which tells the story of Atlantic Media Chief Technology Officer Tom Cochran, who blasted out a simulated phishing email ...

Snowden Exfiltrated NSA Files On Thumb Drive

Jun 18, 2013 4:47:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It appears that Edward Snowden used a thumb drive to exfiltrate the Top Secret files documents from NSA's network. The US DoD banned the use of flash drives in 2008 after Defense systems ...

New Fun Little Quiz: How Phish-prone Are You?

Jun 7, 2013 12:11:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We created a fun new little quiz you could send to your users!

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 ...

Webroot Spots NATO Job Apps Lead To Malware

May 26, 2013 10:35:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This one qualifies as a Scam Of The Week and it's a good one to forward to your employees.

0-Day Threats and Security Awareness

May 23, 2013 10:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

OK, we all know that there is a lively trade in 0-day threats. Often this is an unknown vulnerability in a popular browser that is not fixed yet. Microsoft recently announced they fixed ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Walmart.com

May 17, 2013 9:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wal-Mart took special effort this week and warned customers of an unusually 'high quality' phishing email that tries to get personal and credit information. They stated on their corporate ...

Facebook 'Fraud-as-a-Service' Promoted Via Google

May 14, 2013 10:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may have read CyberheistNews Vol 3, #19, which had 'Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream' as its headline. Here is a follow up on that. You can now download apps that hack Facebook, and ...

We hired 3 more people, the office is getting full !

May 9, 2013 6:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We had three more people start this week, two in sales and one to help our channel partners. The office is getting full! Our Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training is doing GREAT. We ...

Do This Phishing IQ Test!

May 5, 2013 9:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Did you know that SonicWall has an interesting Phishing IQ test on their website?

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