Read the latest news about security awareness training, best practices, why you need it, and what happens when you don't have it in place.
Ransomware: Pay Up Or Fight. What Would You Do? Ask security experts what to do when hit with ransomware -- the sophisticated malware that infects a device or network, uses military-grade ...
Adam Greenberg at SC Magazine reported on something interesting:
A spear-phishing last month at Orange Park City Hall almost got away with $500,000 from the city's bank account. Fortunately it was caught in time so that a wire transfer that already had ...
In a new report, Hacking the Human OS, McAfee (owned by Intel) security researchers Raj Samani and Charles McFarland found that, increasingly, hackers are using social engineering ...
Kaspersky recently reported that 28.8 percent of phishing attacks in 2014 tried to steal financial data from consumers. The results show how cybercrime has shifted its focus to payment ...
More than 100 financial institutions in 30 countries have been the victim of a cyberheist that lasted in some cases almost 2 years. This was not a smash-and-grab but a highly ...
The traditional malicious software detection approach is far from being sufficient, especially in corporate environments. More and more it's found that antivirus products can take months ...
Last updated 2/12/2015 - The foreign hackers who stole up to 80 million records from Anthem social engineered their way into the company's network by obtaining the credentials of five ...
It's a well-known fact that employees are the weakest link in IT security. There is good news though! New research from our friends at Wombat Security Technologies and the Aberdeen Group ...
Organizations defend their networks on each of the six levels in the green graph you see. End-user Internet Security Awareness Training resides in the outer layer: ‘Policies, Procedures, ...
It's the holidays and the bad guys are working overtime. There are three scams you want to warn your users about. Remember the Phil Esterhaus character in Hill Street Blues? To begin ...
Lance Spitzner at the SANS Securing The Human program and I have a lot in common; we evangelize effective security awareness training and we both drive a Tesla. In his 22 December 2014 ...
Following last year’s big announcement of not just Target’s data breach but executive job loss, CSO lays out 9 data breaches resulting in job loss. They compare Target alongside other ...
System admins hold the keys to the kingdom. The NSA is actively hunting for system admin credentials. A popular way to get you to click on something that installs zero-day malware on your ...
It does not get any worse than this. Or better than this, if you are a criminal hacker. Domain-name management organization ICANN announced it has been hacked and its DNS zone ...
The lack of awareness and understanding of risks is one of the biggest challenges to information security, according to a panel of experts. Research showed that 93% of data breaches ...
Our friends at Wombat created a good summary why security awareness training is a must these days. Why?
Sony has been hacked several times, and should have learned their lesson a while ago, but no. This time it is really bad though. Late yesterday the FBI warned U.S. business that the ...
