Your AntiVirus Does Not See NSA's Botnet

Nov 23, 2013 12:03:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The revelations are getting wilder by the week. The NSA has its own botnet, they infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive ...

Why you shouldn’t connect to just any free Wi-Fi

Nov 21, 2013 11:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our friends at MalwareBytes put up a great blog post that explains in detail why you should not just connect to any free Wi-Fi. The risk is that you will connect to a hostile Wi-Fi access ...

How To Create Strong, Complex Passwords to Protect Your Organization

Nov 19, 2013 2:20:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Edward Snowden Used Social Engineering To Hack NSA

Nov 18, 2013 10:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden used user names and passwords that colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii gave him to access some of the classified material he exfiltrated. Around 20-25 ...

A Serious Legal Liability: Bad or No Security Awareness Training

Oct 28, 2013 7:45:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Please read this article and then forward it to the head of your legal department or the person in your organization who is responsible for compliance. Recently, the Department of Health ...

Even the tech-savvy get their accounts hacked...

Oct 23, 2013 10:06:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Steve Ragan , Staff Writer at CSO wrote: "October 22, 2013 — The millennial generation, those of us who were born and raised alongside the Internet, should be wise enough to avoid ...

Half Of Federal Security Breaches Caused By Employees

Oct 22, 2013 9:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT, announced the results of a new report. The study compares what cyber security ...

More Likely to Fall for a Phishing Scam If You’re a Neurotic Woman?

Oct 7, 2013 9:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Softpedia published an article I have a problem with. There is so much wrong with this that I don't even know where to start. They started out with:

Inside The Adobe Databreach Disaster

Oct 7, 2013 9:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week Adobe announced probably the worst news ever for a tech company. Both their source code and customer lists had been stolen. EPIC FAIL!

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 40

Sep 30, 2013 5:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 40

Scam Of The Week: Affordable Health Care "Advisers"

Sep 30, 2013 2:53:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tomorrow, Tuesday October 1, 2013, the first stage of the new health care act kicks in. You can start shopping for policies on new insurance "marketplaces". There is going to be an ...

Your Employees' Identity -Has- Been Stolen

Sep 30, 2013 9:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is the expression that there are two kinds of companies. The ones that know they are hacked and the ones that don't. It's safe to assume your network has already been compromised ...

NEW Kevin Mitnick VIDEO: The Word Document Exploit

Sep 24, 2013 12:18:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Check out a brand new 3:25 min Kevin Mitnick video where he shows live how an infected Word document allows a hacker to steal the employee's user name and password. This is just one of ...

FBI: “Beta Bot” malware kills your anti-virus and steals data

Sep 20, 2013 2:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, the FBI sent out a warning that a strain of malware known as "Beta Bot" can turn off your antivirus, stops access to the websites of antivirus vendors so that your antivirus ...

Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Broken?

Sep 17, 2013 4:39:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steve Ragan over at CSO Magazine wrote:

RAPID7 SECURING USER RISK

Sep 17, 2013 3:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Rapid7 found 66% of IT professionals conduct user security awareness training to reduce the risk of successful phishing attacks.

Scam Of The Week: Ransomware Uses Child Porn Threat

Sep 13, 2013 4:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Getting caught viewing child porn is a huge deal and instantly makes you an outcast in most western countries. Cybercriminals have cooked up a new way to blackmail people out of their ...

Scam Of The Week: "U.S. Starts Bombing Syria"

Sep 7, 2013 3:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This one is crafty. There is a fake CNN spam being sent with a subject that reads: "The United States began bombing!" in Syria, but clicking on it will likely result in the workstation ...

KnowBe4 Finalist in Tampa Industry Achievement Awards

Sep 4, 2013 2:31:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We just received word from the Tampa Bay Technology Forum that KnowBe4 has been selected as a finalist in TBTF’s 10th Annual Industry Achievement Awards in the Emerging Technology Company ...

Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 2014

Sep 3, 2013 5:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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