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Social Media Doppelgangers Strike Again

Most people would be surprised by how easy it is to scam people online using duplicate versions of public accounts, according to Jake Moore, a security specialist at ESET. Moore describes ...

Phishing Site Takes Brand Impersonation to a Whole New Level Pretending to be FINRA

Most scammers simply grab a company logo, or perhaps a logon page to make it appear like the website used as part of a scam is legitimate. But how about an entire website?

Credential Stuffing Attacks Shut Down Canada's Revenues Service

The Canada Revenue Agency is investigating two online hacking incidents affecting the personal information of thousands of Canadians, according to CBC News.

U.K. Firms Have Dismissed Employees for Breaching Cybersecurity Policy Since COVID-19 Pandemic

Almost two-fifths of business decision-makers have fired employees because of a cybersecurity policy breach since the pandemic began, a survey has found.

ABC News Interviewed Me on South Carolina Man Finding Personal Information of WWE Star and Raiding Her Home

A man in South Carolina was just arrested after finding the personal information of WWE Star Sonya Deville, and ABC Action News Tampa Bay interviewed me about how we can prevent ...

The Celebrities Don't Know You, and You Don't Know Them

Over the past four months, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has shut down more than 300,000 URLs linking to investment schemes that fraudulently claim to be endorsed by ...

Trying for a win, win, win game. Listen to this 5-minute interview with me.

Cyberwire has a short-form podcast called Career Notes and interviewed me recently. They said: "Founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman takes us on a journey of how his career developed from ...

Phishing Golden Hour

In emergency healthcare settings, the “golden hour” is the time between when a patient suffering a life threatening event (e.g., heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, etc.) is most likely to ...

[Heads Up] Apparently Slack Phishing Got So Bad They Had To Do Something About It

Slack has announced a slew of new security features, certificates and integrations, including a verification system that adds an additional layer to protect against phishing scams.

Cybercriminals Target Execs in Microsoft 365 Credential Attack to Launch Internal BEC Scams

A new phishing attack spotted in the wild by security researchers at Trend Micro demonstrates how compromised data in an initial cyberattack is purposed in subsequent attacks.