$20 Million Stolen in Cyberheists from SMEs, Money Sent to China

Apr 29, 2011 8:59:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The FBI reported this week that between March 2010 and April 2011, cyberthieves drained approximately $20 million from the accounts of US-based small to medium enterprises (SMEs) via ...

77 Million Network Accounts for Sony PlayStation Compromised by Daring Cybercrime

Apr 27, 2011 8:59:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This morning the news is ablaze with reports of a hack into Sony's PlayStation Network, with numerous media outlets proclaiming that as many as 77 million customer accounts have been ...

Inside the "Phishing Mindset" That Drives Cybercrime

Apr 25, 2011 8:55:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I just read a fascinating interview with security maven Tim Rohrbaugh, VP for Information Security at Intersections Inc. Intersections is a provider of branded and customized identity ...

The Cyberheist Book Has Arrived!

Apr 22, 2011 8:19:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_754" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Cyberheist"] [/caption] Cyberheist the book has arrived! The Kindle edition is currently selling on Amazon for ...

Conde Nast Caught in $8 Million Spear-Phishing Scam

Apr 21, 2011 7:54:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_747" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="cybercrime site"][/caption] I wanted to bring to your attention another major cyberheist scheme that is making news. It ...

Understanding ISAT (Internet Security Awareness Training)

Apr 18, 2011 8:56:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

ISAT is pronounced "Eye sat", and stands for Internet Security Awareness Training. It's our bread and butter here at KnowBe4.com, so it's something we like to communicate about regularly, ...

Symantec "Trends for 2010" Report Emphasizes Increased Mobile Cybercrime Threats

Apr 15, 2011 7:42:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Every April, Symantec publishes its Internet Security Threat Report for the preceding year. This month, the company released the latest item in that series entitled " Symantec Internet ...

Smartphone Users at Greatest Risk for Phishing

Apr 13, 2011 9:08:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the wake of the recent Epsilon e-mail hack, I came across a CNN article " Mobile users more vulnerable to e-mail phishing scams." In that story the reporter, Amy Gahran, asserts the ...

Do Your PCs Come With "For Rent" Signs for Cyberthieves?

Apr 11, 2011 10:48:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs is a former reporter on the information security beat for The Washington Post who now runs his own Website KrebsOnSecurity.com in Northern Virginia. IN a recent (4/8/2011) ...

Three Quarters of All SMB Banking Cybercrime Happens Online

Apr 6, 2011 7:07:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A recent study entitled "The 2011 Business Banking Trust Study" reports that three of every four small and midsized businesses that experienced banking fraud in the previous year incurred ...

Millions of Consumer/Customer E-mail Addresses Stolen; Phishing Surely to Follow

Apr 4, 2011 4:05:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Epsilon is one of the world's largest customer outreach e-mail companies, and generates legitimate traffic on behalf of a number of very large companies (see Table 1 below). Epsilon ...

Cybercrime: Ventura County, CA Credit Card Tax Payment System Hacked

Mar 30, 2011 3:38:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ventura County, California, is a small small county (population: 802,983 according to 2009 numbers from the US Census Bureau) north of the greater Los Angeles area. According to a March ...

Rustock Botnet Cybercrime Takedown, Thanks to MS-Led Multi-Party Effort

Mar 23, 2011 11:53:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The infamous Rustock botnet, estimated by some parties to be responsible for between 30 and 50 percent of all the spam in the world—up to 30 BILLION items per day—has been taken down. ...

Symantec's Latest 'State of Spam & Phishing' Report

Mar 21, 2011 12:47:30 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Report #51 from Symantec, the "State of Spam & Phishing" for March 2011 is out. From the phishing side, the news is grim but not unexpected. Phishing is up 38.56% for the month, ...

M86 Security Documents Clever New HTML-based Phishing Scam

Mar 21, 2011 10:45:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the ongoing game of cops-and-robbers that network security so often involves, the cops have recently upped the ante on phishing detection in modern Web browsers. These days browsers ...

APWG Website Is a Great Anti-Phishing Resource

Mar 16, 2011 4:17:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing: Malware Infected Web Sites Experience Explosive Growth

Mar 10, 2011 10:22:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Heh! Heh! We're not sure if we were alarmed by the content in this recent CrunchGear blog post, or captivated by the cute "malweb critter" used to give the story a little visual interest ...

Cybercrime: Beware of Fake IRS "Instant Return" or "Direct Deposit" Scams

Mar 6, 2011 11:55:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is a a good news/bad news blog. The good news is that because April 15 falls on a Friday this year, the filing deadline has been extended until April 18. The bad news is with tax ...

DNS Cyberheist Hijack Prompts Credit Card Credential and Other Compromises

Mar 4, 2011 4:32:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An interesting tidbit has emerged from the eCrime Trends Report for Q4-2010 from online security firm Internet Identity (aka IID). Over the Christmas holidays, an online payment ...

SmartPhones Increasingly Targeted for Cybercrime, Spam and Attack

Feb 28, 2011 10:41:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In its most recent Threats Report for Q4 2010 (.PDF), network security company McAfee points out what they call "a steady growth of threats to mobile platforms," with smartphones ...

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