New Study Shows Your Apps Could Be Putting Your Personal Information At Risk

Jun 29, 2016 10:30:00 AM By TAMPA BAY, FL

A recent study by Cloudlock, a cyber security company, revealed several popular apps that could allow hackers an easy gateway to access your personal information.

"BadTunnel" Social Engineering Attack Hijacks Your Network Traffic

Jun 26, 2016 9:55:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A researcher in China has discovered a design flaw in Microsoft Windows that affects all versions of the operating system using NetBIOS spoofing —including Windows 10— and lets an ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Don't Be The Victim Of A Cyberheist

Jun 2, 2016 2:48:57 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We have created a new infographic for your users, as part of your ongoing security awareness training program. It's a few good reminders how to stay safe online, and to keep their ...

How To Stop Your Ex-Girlfriend Sending Nude Photos To A Fake Facebook Profile

May 20, 2016 8:14:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a case of sophisticated social engineering, a fraudster created a fake profile of actor Vincent Gallo. He then proceeded to engage in a 2-month long scam, flirting online and sending ...

Troy, Mich Investment Firm Loses $500,000 in CEO Fraud

May 6, 2016 11:37:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An employee at a Troy, Mich., investment firm fell for a CEO Fraud attack and was social engineered into transferring almost $500,000 to a Hong Kong bank. The error was noticed eight days ...

US Company Falls Victim To $100 Million CEO Email Fraud

Apr 15, 2016 8:08:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An as yet unknown American company fell victim to nearly $100 million in CEO Fraud. Employees were social engineered by spoofed emails that claimed to be one of its legitimate vendors, ...

Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Medstar Washington Hospital

Mar 28, 2016 8:29:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Washington Post reported that a ransomware infection penetrated the computer network of MedStar Health early Monday morning, forcing the Washington health care behemoth to shut down ...

Scam Of The Week - Netflix For Free

Feb 20, 2016 9:48:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Netflix’s popularity continues to grow fast, and they recently launched their streaming service globally. Obviously that makes them a hacker target. At the moment, there are active ...

Scam Of The Week: Your Stolen iPhone Has Been Found

Jan 31, 2016 7:59:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Between 3 and 4 million smartphones are stolen every year. It's your modern-day purse snatching. Many people put their entire private and work lives on these devices that can cost up to ...

CEO Fraud Costs Boeing Vendor 54 Million Dollars

Jan 24, 2016 9:40:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Effective security awareness training for your high-risk employees is becoming a major priority. The accounting team of FACC, who design and manufacture aircraft components for Boeing and ...

Scam Of The Week: Phish With Hidden Sting

Jan 23, 2016 10:26:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As you may have heard, KnowBe4 has released a no-charge Outlook Add-in that allows employees to report phishing attacks to their Incident Response team with just one click. It's called ...

Scam Of The Week: Dell Tech Support Service Tag Hack

Jan 16, 2016 10:15:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is a real one. A number of people using Dell PCs have been contacted by scammers claiming to be Dell Tech Support who actually had specific data that only Dell could have had. We're ...

Scam Of The Week: Enter To Win Tickets To Star Wars

Oct 22, 2015 4:14:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's "Scam Of The Week" time to warn your users against phishing attacks that try to trick them into winning movie tickets for the new Star Wars movie. For the next 2 months this is going ...

Beautiful Social Engineering Attack By Gorgeous IBM Rep

Oct 22, 2015 11:54:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Credit card numbers are small potatoes. Big-time computer hackers are after proprietary information: source code, pharmaceutical research, legal documents, chemical formulas, blueprints, ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Social Engineering

Oct 9, 2015 6:30:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

“You could spend a fortune purchasing technology and services, and your network infrastructure could still remain vulnerable to old-fashioned manipulation.” — Kevin Mitnick. Bad guys ...

Scam Of The Week: Amazon Account Threat

Sep 19, 2015 9:28:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Seen the fact that Amazon is the World's largest retailer it's surprising that there aren't more of these scams, but this one sticks out as particularly deceptive. Often cyber criminals ...

Social Engineering Heaven: Combine AshMad Hack With OPM Data

Sep 5, 2015 10:52:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Office of Personnel Management has just closed a 133 million dollar contract to protect 21.5 million OPM data breach victims for three years. Wow, "Barn, Horse" anyone? This is an ...

Off With Their Heads! Execs get the ax for data breaches

Aug 19, 2015 5:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Until last year, executives were able to pass the buck to IT in case a data breach hit the organization. However, several recent high-profile resignations are now putting the focus on ...

IT Confessions: The Deadly Six Sins Of Data Security

Aug 15, 2015 10:26:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Massive hacks continue to fill the front page of major media outlets. The recent hack of the Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by Chinese state-sponsored hackers again showed ...

Leaked NSA slides: Chinese hackers wreaking havoc on USA

Aug 2, 2015 9:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have been talking for years at this blog about the Chinese hacking into the U.S. for mainly espionage, using highly sophisticated social engineering and spear-phishing attacks. This ...

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