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.
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. ...
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
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 ...
This week, Wall Street Journal MarketWatch reporter Priya Anand quoted me in an article she wrote about the new wave of ransomware phishing attacks.
This week I attended a webinar about Security Awareness Training hosted by David Monahan, Research Director Security and Risk Management of Enterprise Management Associates.
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."
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 ...
Great post about security awareness by Douglas B. Robison, Florida Blue, a 2014 CSO40 award recipient. Here is an excerpt:
Hackers jump on every opportunity they can to trick people. This time they hijacked to story about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Not Working? Are Users Still Clicking Phishing Links And Opening Infected Attachments?
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06
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 ...
Looks like the bad guys are also targeting Europe with ransomware phishing scams.
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 ...
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 ...
