Beware Of iPhone Delivery Phishes

Sep 19, 2012 9:59:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers have a great new reason to send you a UPS notification regarding your new iPhone 5 shipment. In times like this when people are eagerly waiting for an email of this type the ...

Fake AmEx "Security Verification"

Sep 4, 2012 3:13:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

* Scam Of The Week: Fake AmEx "Security Verification" Phishing attacks come in waves. Old ones get "refurbished" and sent out again after several months. Shiny new ones are cooked up all ...

Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures

Aug 24, 2012 4:49:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures"][/caption] Wath out for the latest Internet craze. The bad guys are having a field day with ...

Special Scam Of The Week: Big Brand Hijacking

Aug 17, 2012 10:16:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An existing KnowBe4 customer tweeted about a fresh scam with the hashtag #RedFlag, and sure enough it had quite a few Red Flags. The bad guys are getting quite inventive, this time ...

More Than Half Of Top 20 Fortune 500 Firms Infected With Gameover Zeus Botnet

Aug 3, 2012 9:00:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Gameover Zeus botnet is now the biggest financial fraud botnet around, and it's run by a single cybercrime group out of Eastern Europe, according to new research. Brett Stone-Gross, ...

Espionage Botnets

Jul 30, 2012 8:36:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Espionage Botnets"][/caption] Brian Krebs just blogged about something very interesting. "A security researcher whos spent 18 months ...

Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud

Jul 12, 2012 6:17:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Bank Sues Customer"][/caption] Tracy Kitten at BankInfo Security reported on this: "In another legal wrangling over liability linked ...

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 ...

Why pill pushing spam pays off

Jun 22, 2012 3:15:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs is on a roll. Here is why pill pushing spam pays off. "Consumer demand for cheap prescription drugs sold through spam-advertised Web sites shows no sign of abating, according ...

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 ...

A Closer Look: Email-Based Ransomware Attacks

Jun 21, 2012 9:31:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With the increase of email phishing attacks being the primary attack vector, ransomware payments have risen to 60%, it's important to take a closer look at email-based ransomware attacks.

Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training Success Stories

Jun 21, 2012 7:07:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

F-Secure Cautions about Fresh Olympic-themed Spam

Jun 4, 2012 7:31:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

F-Secure the security company based in Finland has recently cautioned that spam mails themed on the Olympics are targeting Internauts while carrying web-links to one malevolent PDF file ...

Fake LinkedIn Emails To Reset Your Password

Jun 4, 2012 7:26:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Since LinkedIn had their IPO, they have been in the news a lot more, even if only to compare them with the recent Facebook IPO Debacle. But the better known you are, the bigger target you ...

Malicious PowerPoint File Contains Exploit, Drops Backdoor

Jun 4, 2012 6:24:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

TrendLabs discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives attached to email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific ...

Chinese hacker brings grief to Calgarys Catholic school system

May 29, 2012 4:01:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers will find any mail server that is not protected and/or configured correctly and use it to send out as much spam as possible. This gets the unsuspecting organization blacklisted ...

New Cyberweapon 'Flame': CIA and Mossad Coproduction

May 28, 2012 10:06:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

'Flame', the most sophisticated piece of malware to date, was discovered by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Kaspersky Lab. This code is more complex and has more ...

Banks warned of sophisticated new online scam

May 25, 2012 4:06:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antone Gonsalves at NetworkWorld got this story first. Here is how the scam works, so do not fall for it. You can recognize it by the grammar and spelling mistakes. "The cyber-criminals ...

VIDEO The Top 5 Online Security Traps And How To Avoid Them

May 24, 2012 3:38:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

GFI is one of the few antivirus vendors that understands the importance of prevention and end-user training. They produced this useful video that in two minutes illustrates the top 5 ...

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