Executives are Out and Employees are In as Cybercriminals Change Their Primary Targets for Cyberattack

Phishing and Social Engineering scammers are shifting tactics, focusing efforts on low-level employees using a variety of methods as a means to cast a wider net within a targeted ...

April 24, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Attacks See Massive Increases and Improvements in Execution with Social Engineering at the Helm

With 98% of malicious emails that hit inboxes containing no malware, the evolution and future of the phish lies squarely in the hands of effective social engineering.

April 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Spearphishing Boils Down to Basic Social Engineering

While spearphishing attacks may employ various tactics and tools, they all rely on the same underlying human weaknesses to achieve their goals, according to Asaf Cidon from Barracuda ...

April 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Social Engineers Earn a First

A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Florida Spearphishing: Meddle Globally, Phish Locally

Russian intelligence services sent spearphishing emails to more than 120 email accounts used by Florida election officials in November 2016, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ...

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

U.K. Government: "80% Of Organizations Experience Phishing Attacks"

Despite maintaining an improved security posture over last year, 2019 brings additional attacks with a higher price tag, causing the U.K. government to urge organizations to do more.

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Ohio Becomes the Third U.S. State to Adopt the NAIC’s Insurance Data Security Model Law

Ohio joins South Carolina and Michigan to create cybersecurity legislation modeled after the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law.

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Continues to be the Source of Health Data Breaches Totaling Over 1M Breached Records

The beginning of 2019 has proven that data breaches in the health industry aren’t going anywhere. And from the intel on the breaches, phishing is playing a predominant role.

April 18, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Here are few Game of Thrones phishing scams you should know about and how to avoid them

With the Game of Thrones (GoT) Season 8 finally airing, bad guys are using a variety of social engineering tactics to trick your end-users.

April 18, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[Heads-up] A GA County School System Only Just Escaped A 2 Million Dollar Cyber Attack

Armor, a leading global cloud security solutions provider, read the news about a recent cyberattack, where hackers targeted the payroll department of the city of Tallahassee, FL and ...

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Executives are Out and Employees are In as Cybercriminals Change Their Primary Targets for Cyberattack

Phishing Attacks See Massive Increases and Improvements in Execution with Social Engineering at the Helm

Spearphishing Boils Down to Basic Social Engineering

Social Engineers Earn a First

Florida Spearphishing: Meddle Globally, Phish Locally

U.K. Government: "80% Of Organizations Experience Phishing Attacks"

Ohio Becomes the Third U.S. State to Adopt the NAIC’s Insurance Data Security Model Law

Phishing Continues to be the Source of Health Data Breaches Totaling Over 1M Breached Records

Here are few Game of Thrones phishing scams you should know about and how to avoid them

[Heads-up] A GA County School System Only Just Escaped A 2 Million Dollar Cyber Attack

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