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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 ...

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.

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.

[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 ...

Scammers Impersonate Big UK Law

The UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned that scammers are impersonating a London law firm, Linklaters LLP, using phony job offers. The documents purport to come from the ...

Smishing Down Under

Banking malware is being installed on Android devices via malicious links in SMS messages, CRN reports. Cisco Talos discovered the malware being advertised on an exploit forum, and found ...

[SCAM OF THE WEEK]: Notre Dame Disaster Causes FireStorm Of Social Engineering And Misinformation

The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris caught fire and was barely saved from total destruction. Millions of people visit every year and hundreds of millions feel a powerful, and personal, ...

Island Hopping Grows in Popularity as Attackers use One Victim to Create the Next

Cybercriminals no longer see your organization as just their next target; they see the organization as a valuable source of intel and the launch point for their next attack. In business ...

Insurers Discuss What to Expect from a Ransomware Attack, and How to Defend Yourself Against One

Ransomware tops the list of attacks for insurers of the food and beverage industry. Outdated software and lax user concern for security controls provide attacker with a way in.

Staff and Students Put School Districts at the Greatest Risk of Cyber Attack

Inadvertent sharing, phishing attacks, and ransomware top the list of attack vectors, with teachers, students, and vendors all contributing to the risk of breach.