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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 ...

Malicious PowerPoint File Contains Exploit, Drops Backdoor

TrendLabs discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives attached to email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific ...

Aaaugh! 1 in 5 U.S. Windows PCs Lack Antivirus Defenses

Un-friggin-believable but true. Don't be one of them! Gregg Keizer at ComputerWorld was the first with this story. "Nearly a fifth of Windows PCs in the U.S. lack any active security ...

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Chinese hacker brings grief to Calgary’s Catholic school system

Hackers will find any mail server that is not protected and/or configured correctly and use it to send out as much spam as possible. This gets the unsuspecting organization blacklisted ...

VIDEO The Top 5 Online Security Traps And How To Avoid Them

GFI is one of the few antivirus vendors that understands the importance of prevention and end-user training. They produced this useful video that in two minutes illustrates the top 5 ...

Gmail Security Hole Allows Hackers To Automate Social Engineering Trick

Christopher Mims over at Technology Review was the first one to report on this. A large Gmail security hole could lead to mass harvesting of accounts, as hackers can automate this social ...

Hackers Target the Weakest Link: The End User

I was interviewed by Jeremy Quittner yesterday. Here is how he started his article in American Banker today: "It took Stu Sjouwerman, the founder and chief executive of security firm ...

Guessable Passwords: The Unpatchable Exploit

Monday morning, I found a tweet by @INFOSECSchool with the above title. I admit, it's a catchy phrase and sure enough, IF you allow easy passwords, it's an invitation to get hacked. This ...

Fake Amex ID Verification

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Fake Amex ID Verification"][/caption] OK, here is another one to warn everyone about, especially the employees that have a ...

Spot the security "no-no"

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Spot the security "no-no""][/caption] Wow, talk about a TV interview that contains a massive vulnerability. We think this is a press ...

Spear-phishing attacks hit gas pipeline networks

A Homeland Security Department cyber response team focusing on industrial control systems has issued a warning to the natural gas pipeline industry of targeted cyberattacks that have ...

Gartner considers security awareness training an essential tool for all companies

Linda Musthaler, at NetworkWorld just wrote an excellent article about training workers to be cyber safe. One paragraph was especially noteworthy: “In 2012 we’re already seeing a sharp ...

I am a malware coder and botnet operator

This is a discussion on Reddit, where a (presumably Polish) malware coder and botnet operator very candidly answers questions from people. This is a fascinating but rather technical read, ...

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