Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
So, yesterday I received this email from my Identity Theft Provider. Been with them since 2008 so I know how their emails look. Normally I get the "all clear" signal once a month, but ...
Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing. It was to be expected. Cyber criminals now are able to scrape your followers from Twitter, and send you a Direct Message (DM) supposedly coming from ...
Last week, Adobe warned customers that a few new exploits that target Acrobat Reader were being exploited in the wild. Keep an eye out for patches that are expected soon. The exploits are ...
Antone Gonsales at the CSO site hits the nail on the head: "Email security vendors have failed to do enough to protect customers against advanced cyberattacks like the one recently linked ...
I ran across some very interesting research recently done by NSS Labs. They compared twelve of the most popular antivirus engines, they call them endpoint protection products (EPP) and ...
KnowBe4 is a market leader in security awareness training for employees in an office environment. However, when we asked people who finished the training what they thought, they said they ...
You may be familiar with our friends at SANS. For their 'Securing The Human' team, every month is security awareness month, same as here at KnowBe4. On the first of every month they post ...
Zuck has come out with something new, and you always need to watch it when that happens. It's a combination of big data and social networking so that people can easily find new friends, ...
User Awareness Tops Security Leaders' List of Challenges Tom Field over at the Healthcare Infosecurity Site nails it:" Heading into 2013, security leaders across industry feel confident ...
Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013 - First Quantity, Now Quality: In 2013, cybercrime will focus more on quality than before. They will opt for increasingly smart malware, and more ...
If cybercrime would be promoting their malware, for sure they would call their EuroGrabber 'next-generation' Zeus crimeware. This is (a lot) more than your run-of-the-mill banking Trojan. ...
The net-security website reported: "PhishMe predicts that phishers will be changing their tactics in 2013 resorting to targeted spear phishing emails rather than the mass mails of the ...
Antony Savvas at Computerworld UK had a good write-up about this quite interesting news: "Some 91% of cyberattacks begin with a "spear phishing" email, according to research from security ...
NBC News reported: COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A single malicious email sent to workers at the South Carolina Department of Revenue last August enabled an international hacker to crack into state ...
In the annals of what-was-I-thinking moments in computer security, this has to be one of the most gobsmacking. According to a Bloomberg News investigation of a series of undisclosed ...
Brian Krebs has an excellent example of a recent cyberheist. Read it and weep! The $180,000 robbery took the building security and maintenance system installer Primary Systems Inc. by ...
Twice a year, KnowBe4 publishes the Top 5 spear-phishing attacks that are used to lure executives into clicking on links or open infected attachments. We recommend sending this list to ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280" caption="Top Phishing Day"][/caption] Websense reported on October 8, 2012 about their July-August 2012 research. They said: "A disturbing new ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 13"][/caption] Microsoft released their Security Intelligence Report (SIR) last week, ...
