The Antivirus Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
[Updated 5/1/2016]. The Antivirus industry has a dirty little secret that they really don’t want anyone to know. Despite the claims of their marketing departments, their products are not ...
Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
[Updated 5/1/2016]. The Antivirus industry has a dirty little secret that they really don’t want anyone to know. Despite the claims of their marketing departments, their products are not ...
Please read this article and then forward it to the head of your legal department or the person in your organization who is responsible for compliance. Recently, the Department of Health ...
Steve Ragan over at CSO Magazine wrote:
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Antivirus company Bitdefender reported something important. Here is their blog post of July 17, 2003.
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
We created a fun new little quiz you could send to your users!
(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 ...
This one qualifies as a Scam Of The Week and it's a good one to forward to your employees.
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 ...
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 ...