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 ...

Phishing: Further Ruminations on Whaling Attacks

Feb 24, 2011 6:04:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In phishing terms, whaling means applying phishing attacks to "big fish"--namely, corporate executives, public figures, celebrities, and, of course, very wealthy persons. We've been ...

Cyberheist Snippet 3: Spear-Phishing Definition

Feb 22, 2011 1:11:03 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

As we mentioned in Cyberheist Snippet 1 and Cyberheist Snippet 2, we're working on a book here at KnowBe4.com, and it features Cyberheist as the first word in its title. Here's a third ...

Cyberheist: The Real Bite in Company Suits Against Banks for Negligence

Feb 21, 2011 11:11:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As we've mentioned repeatedly in this blog, the FDIC does not insure SMBs against losses to fraudulent account access the same way that it covers individual bank accounts. This has left ...

Phishing's "Golden Hour"

Feb 17, 2011 7:31:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We stumbled across a fascinating story on the Trusteer Web site recently ( Trusteer is an Internet security firm whose principal products focus on fraud detection and prevention for the ...

Beware Cross-Channel Cybercrime Threats!

Feb 9, 2011 7:59:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Shoot! Anybody with a smidgen of Web security history under his or her belt winces as soon as the word "cross" comes up as a modifier, thanks to the legions of exploits based on ...

Preventing Cyberheist, A New Internet Creed: 'Think Before You Click!'

Feb 2, 2011 4:59:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here at KnowBe4 we focus on Internet Security Awareness, and provide a battery of information, services, and training to help raise awareness of potential threats and loss that uninformed ...

Internet Security Awareness Training: Getting Social With KnowBe4

Feb 1, 2011 1:50:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If you want to keep up with the latest news and information about Internet Security, then you can not only follow KnowBe4 right here on our blog, but you can also check us out on our ...

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