Can You Fix A Human Problem With A Technology Solution?

Jun 16, 2014 2:32:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Let me be clear from the get-go: maybe partially but never 100%. Hundreds of IT security companies have tried and failed, just look at the malware infections you are battling regularly. ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Free World Cup Trip To Brazil

Jun 10, 2014 4:34:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The 2014 FIFA World Cup football (soccer) has kicked off this week, and so have phishing campaigns trying to trick you into scams for free tickets, realtime news and online streaming of ...

We’ll Pay Your Crypto-Ransom If You Get Hit With Ransomware

Jun 5, 2014 2:26:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We’ll Pay Your Crypto-Ransom If You Get Hit

CryptoLocker Goes SpearPhishing

May 17, 2014 11:26:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may be familiar with a site called Spiceworks. They have free system admin and network management software, and their business model is advertising to the hundreds of thousands that ...

Wall Street Journal Quoted Me Regarding Ransomware Phishing Attacks

Apr 10, 2014 10:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, Wall Street Journal MarketWatch reporter Priya Anand quoted me in an article she wrote about the new wave of ransomware phishing attacks.

More Than Half Of End Users Did Not Get Security Awareness Training

Apr 10, 2014 9:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week I attended a webinar about Security Awareness Training hosted by David Monahan, Research Director Security and Risk Management of Enterprise Management Associates.

Attacks Give Lift to Cyber Insurance

Mar 27, 2014 2:34:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today in the Wall Street Journal, reporter Leslie Scism quoted Bloomberg News that "Target's data breach 'was the equivalent of 10 free Super Bowl ads."

CryptoLocker Has A Competitor That Is Worse: CryptoDefense

Mar 24, 2014 4:35:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

As we said before, there is furious competition between cybergangs. Late February 2014 a copycat ransomware competitor to Cryptolocker was released which outdoes CryptoLocker. The malware ...

Florida Blue takes security awareness training personally

Mar 24, 2014 3:55:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Great post about security awareness by Douglas B. Robison, Florida Blue, a 2014 CSO40 award recipient. Here is an excerpt:

Phishing FaceBook: Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted

Mar 15, 2014 11:04:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers jump on every opportunity they can to trick people. This time they hijacked to story about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

New Phishing Scam Promises Bitcoins

Mar 15, 2014 8:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Lily Newman at the Future Tense blog wrote this post for the slate site, after Slate's news editor Chad Lorenz received a new phishing email purportedly from coinbase, who happily ...

Scam Of The Week: "You may have cancer" phishing email

Mar 13, 2014 7:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Amy Stevens of the PR group Davies Murphy became part of the story when Eduard Kovacs at SoftPedia picked up on her tweet about a phishing email she just received. If you recently had a ...

Sticking With WinXP? 10 Things You Must Do

Mar 6, 2014 9:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I'm sure you know that April 8 2014, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP and stop creating security updates for XP as well. That means that when after April 8, 2014 another security ...

Kiss Your Old Security Awareness Training Program Goodbye!

Feb 18, 2014 11:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Not Working? Are Users Still Clicking Phishing Links And Opening Infected Attachments?

BREAKING NEWS Target Data Breach Started With Phishing Attack

Feb 12, 2014 4:12:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06 Cryptolocker Scrambles Files Of US Law Firm

Feb 11, 2014 9:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06

Cryptolocker Scrambles All Legal Files Of US Law Firm

Feb 10, 2014 7:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

WSOCTV in Charlotte, North Carolina's reports on a Goodson's, a small US law firm there which stepped forward and bravely admitted that their whole file server was scrambled by ...

ransomware phishing warning issued by European Cybercrime Centre

Feb 5, 2014 8:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Looks like the bad guys are also targeting Europe with ransomware phishing scams.

FBI: The 10 Criminal Cyber Crime Professions

Feb 3, 2014 3:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Center for Cyber Forensics and Information Security (CCFIS) reported in a blog: "The FBI has recently classified the different 'professional positions' they have encountered in the ...

Social Engineering Alert: Missed Call From A Mystery Number?

Feb 3, 2014 1:59:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

TechCrunch wrote: "The people who read our site are a pretty savvy lot. You know not to accept checks from distant princes. You can spot a phisher from a mile away. But here’s one that ...

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