Survey Finds Half of Holiday Shoppers Will Avoid Hacked Stores

Oct 21, 2014 10:47:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Huffington Post Survey: "As another holiday shopping frenzy nears, a new survey suggests that many consumers plan to avoid the growing number of retailers that have been hacked.

Scam Of The Week: Ebola Phishing Grows In Volume

Oct 19, 2014 9:52:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have been warning here before that Ebola phishing attacks would be more and more prevalent, as a result of the mass-media spending increasing amounts of time covering this threat.

Ransomware hits admin workstation and kills 7 servers

Oct 15, 2014 2:53:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I wanted to share a horror story with you, something that happened to somebody the day before yesterday. This is what happened in their own words:

The Snappening - Snapchat naked selfies have leaked - but how?

Oct 14, 2014 2:32:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Snapchat is supposed to not keep pictures and basically delete ("self-destruct") any pictures automatically. The ghostly cloud service itself was not hacked, but many megabytes of saved ...

I was just interviewed on TV about the JP Morgan Hack

Oct 14, 2014 10:35:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tampa TV station 10News WTSP interviewed me about the JP Morgan Hack. You can see the short clip here:

Who Is The Most Dangerous Cyber Celebrity of 2014?

Oct 2, 2014 10:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

No, it's not who you think. In recent year it was always a female celebrity like Emma Watson, Heidi Klum or Cameron Diaz that lured web surfers to sites laced with malware. At the end of ...

Latest Anti Phishing Working Group Report

Oct 1, 2014 1:51:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest APWG report came out: "Phishers are criminal, but they do make rational decisions about how to go about their work. They’re in it for the money, and they work to make their ...

Top 5 eLearning Statistics for 2014 [Infographic]

Sep 30, 2014 4:48:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The rise in eLearning’s popularity isn’t showing any signs of slowing. In fact, judging by the following Top 10 eLearning statistics for 2014, the future of the eLearning Industry is ...

Home Depot Hack Turns Into Criminal Negligence Scandal

Sep 29, 2014 8:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wait for the class-actions lawsuits to get unleashed. The lawyers are going to be over this one like white on rice. Ex-employees from the Home Depot IT technology group are now claiming ...

New Android Ransomware Strain Locks The Device Twice

Sep 22, 2014 3:07:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers in Russia discovered a new Android ransomware strain which does not lock the device just once but twice. It spreads by using a social engineering trick, disguising itself as a ...

Regular Facebook Users Are More Likely To Fall For Phishing Scams

Sep 19, 2014 3:32:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Techcrunch was the first one to report on some very interesting findings:

New KnowBe4 Whitepaper: A Short History of Ransomware

Sep 18, 2014 5:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

New Ransomware Discovered Called CryptoGraphic Locker

Sep 4, 2014 3:25:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Panda researcher BartBlaze discovered a new strain of ransomware called CryptoGraphic Locker. Bleepingcomputer wrote: "Just like other encrypting ransomware, this infection will scan your ...

Scam Of The Week: Jennifer Lawrence Nude Pictures Phishing

Sep 2, 2014 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a new (true) Current Event which unfortunately is the ultimate click bait. A hacker got into the Apple iCloud and hacked the account of Jennifer Lawrence and many other celebs.

Meet CryptoWall, The New Ransomware Leader (with heatmap)

Aug 29, 2014 5:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Malware comes in waves. CryptoLocker was the first major, vicious ransomware, and set off a bunch of copycats. Recently 16 competing ransomware gangs were identified. After CryptoLocker ...

Chase Is Asking For Phishing Trouble

Aug 29, 2014 3:43:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Chase bank says to click links if you suspect phishing. Huh? Yup, they do. Check out this email from Chase, scratch your head, and do not make this error in your own organization. If you ...

J.P. Morgan Hacked Because Malware Infects Employee PC

Aug 28, 2014 9:19:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This morning, the Wall Street Journal reported on the front page that J.P. Morgan was hacked and suffered a cyberheist called "a significant breach of corporate computer security".

Bitcoin Phishing Click Rate Higher Than Regular Scams

Aug 27, 2014 8:41:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Proofpoint Threatinsight blog reported on something curious. They called their posting "Curiosity Clicks: Using Bitcoin’s hype for phishing fun" and came up with some interesting ...

900,000 Android Phones Hit by Ransomware in 30 days

Aug 24, 2014 10:37:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

August 22, 2014 - Nicole Perlroth at the New York Times wrote: "You are guilty of child porn, child abuse, zoophilia or sending out bulk spam. You are a criminal. The Federal Bureau of ...

Not news: Windows Store is full of scam apps

Aug 22, 2014 1:42:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Paul Thurrott over at WindowsIT Pro wrote:

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