Scam Of The Week: Equifax Phishing Attacks

You already know that a 143 million Equifax records were compromised. The difference with this one is that a big-three credit bureau like Equifax tracks so much personal and sometimes ...

September 7, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Equifax Reports Data Breach Possibly Impacting 143 Million U.S. Consumers

The Wall Street Journal just reported that Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc. disclosed Thursday that hackers gained access to some of its systems, compromising the personal ...

September 3, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

These 4 Maps Will Make You Understand Russia's Aggressive Cyber Attacks

There are many kinds of maps, they can show roads or general geography, but sometimes they shed light on other dimensions like economic, political and/or military perspectives. First of ...

August 31, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Introducing Behavioral Information Security

Ben Tomhave posted a great article on his "The Falcon's View" blog. Loved the concept and I'm cross-posting the whole thing in it's entirety without any edits with grateful ...

August 21, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Criminals Use Social Engineering To Make Victims Install Malicious Chrome Extensions

The attackers did reconnaissance on their targets, using social networks which people inside the organization were involved in making financial transactions. These victims were then ...

August 20, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Here Is A Cool And Useful INFOGRAPHIC About Social Engineering

Kevin Mitnick, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer retweeted a link to well-executed infographic about Social Engineering, and here it is, courtesy of the team at Smartfile.com

November 4, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Yes, that email is really from LinkedIn. Yes, it's really malicious.

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Several months ago threat researchers at Proofpoint made a startling discovery : the bad guys had figured out a way to turn Paypal itself ...

October 9, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

The 7 Levels Of Hackers

Eric Chabrow over at the Government Info Security blog found an interesting post by Stuart Coulson, who is a director of a hosting provider in the U.K. Coulson wrote a somewhat longish ...

January 25, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Crelan Bank Loses 75.8 Million Dollars In CEO Fraud

The Belgian Crelan Bank was the victim of a 70 million euro (75.8M U.S.) fraud that was launched from another country. They claim this CEO Fraud was discovered during an internal audit ...

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