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More Than Half Of Top 20 Fortune 500 Firms Infected With Gameover Zeus Botnet

The Gameover Zeus botnet is now the biggest financial fraud botnet around, and it's run by a single cybercrime group out of Eastern Europe, according to new research. Brett Stone-Gross, ...

KnowBe4 Makes InfoWorld Frontpage

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="KnowBe4 InfoWorld Frontpage"][/caption] J. Peter Bruzzese, InfoWorld's Enterprise Windows columnist interviewed me yesterday about ...

My Book Cyberheist: 4-Star Review By Security Expert

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CyberheistNews Vol 2, #31 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training

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Cyberheist Smokescreen; : Email, Phone, SMS Floods

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Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Bank Sues Customer"][/caption] Tracy Kitten at BankInfo Security reported on this: "In another legal wrangling over liability linked ...

I Was Interviewed On TV Thursday

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Stu TV Interview"][/caption] Cyber threats reported by U.S. energy companies, public water districts and other infrastructure ...

Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training"][/caption] I am super excited to officially announce we have released the new ...

Cybercriminals Sniff Out Vulnerable Firms

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="560" caption="Small Firms Cyberheist Victims"][/caption] I could have written this headline myself. But I didn't, it was Sarah Needleman at the ...

Training Fragmentation Causes Knowledge Gap

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Training Fragmentation"][/caption] More and more, you see training companies promote their security awareness training products as ...

Malware Metastasizes

A few days ago I wrote about a 60 million Euro cyberheist. I have been digging into this a bit more, as it's the most advanced attack yet. Cybercrime is not revolutionary, it clearly ...

OMG - I did not know it was THIS horrible.

More from Brian Krebs's astounding blog post today. "As the chart I compiled above indicates, attackers are switching the lure or spoofed brand quite often, but popular choices include ...

A Closer Look: Email-Based Ransomware Attacks

With the increase of email phishing attacks being the primary attack vector, ransomware payments have risen to 60%, it's important to take a closer look at email-based ransomware attacks.

Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training Success Stories

Kevin Mitnick Partners With KnowBe4

Kevin Mitnick, at One Time the World's Most-Wanted Hacker, Joins Forces With Leading Internet Security Awareness Training Company KnowBe4, LLC CLEARWATER, Fla., June 18, 2012 -- Internet ...

Double-check that cashiers check

The fake cashier's check scam has gotten more sophisticated. Cathy Bussewitz at the pressdemocrat site reported on this one: "It usually starts when a seller posts a big-ticket item on ...

F-Secure Cautions about Fresh Olympic-themed Spam

F-Secure the security company based in Finland has recently cautioned that spam mails themed on the Olympics are targeting Internauts while carrying web-links to one malevolent PDF file ...

Over-55s Pick Passwords Twice As Secure As Teenagers

"People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old. That's according to the largest ever study of password security, which also ...


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