Online social engineering scams flourish around Valentine's Day

Feb 13, 2014 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Michael Cooney at Network World summarized the current scams doing the rounds related to online dating and romance sites. A good reminder that heartless con artists use social engineering ...

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

Fake LinkedIn Phishing Profiles Going Pro

Feb 10, 2014 11:26:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Largest Website in Sweden Social Engineering Scam

Feb 6, 2014 6:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

David Jacoby, Kaspersky Lab Expert wrote this blog post yesterday and it shows that employees need to be on their toes with security top of mind even when they visit the largest websites. ...

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 ...

Worst Phishing Scam Of The Week Yet: Cryptolocker

Feb 1, 2014 8:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Why Security Awareness Training? Cryptolocker, That's Why... We here at KnowBe4 have been getting a lot of system admins calling us with the request for security awareness training ...

Major Hotel Franchise Announces Data Breach

Feb 1, 2014 6:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

White Lodging, a company that maintains hotel franchises under nationwide brands including Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton and Westin appears to have suffered a data breach that exposed credit ...

Yahoo Email Hacked

Jan 31, 2014 9:27:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yahoo warned yesterday that unknown attackers have attempted to access a number of Yahoo Mail accounts, and urged users to change their passwords even if they haven't been affected. Jay ...

Feb 1st Is National Change Your Password Day

Jan 30, 2014 3:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: Funeral Notification Phishing Attack

Jan 29, 2014 4:33:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Another one to warn your employees about. The bad guys do not hesitate to exploit the most basic fears of people; the sudden death of a loved one. The message claims to be from a funeral ...

Arg The Cat O Nine Tails For Careless Clickers

Jan 25, 2014 11:17:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Arg! The Cat O' Nine Tails For Careless Clickers!

WSJ: Did Hackers Got Into Target With Spear-phishing

Jan 22, 2014 9:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today (Jan 22, 2014) Wall Street Journal reporters Charles Levinson and Danny Yadron had a good summary of the current status of the Target Hack.

IT security more critical now than executives expected two years ago

Jan 14, 2014 3:36:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

David Braue at CSO reported on some very interesting results of the 11th Annual Information Security Trends report by CompTIA: "28 per cent of respondents said information security was a ...

The History Of Hacking In 5 Minutes For Dummies

Jan 12, 2014 12:40:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

What do you do when you need to explain the history of hacking to a busy non-technical manager in five minutes or less? Here is an attempt to make this extremely complex subject into a ...

Target Databreach Now 110 Mil Cards - Neiman Marcus Hacked Too

Jan 12, 2014 10:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It goes from bad to worse. The initial 40 million turns out to be really 110 million. Apparently the forensics team discovered another 70 million cards exfiltrated. And then the news ...

5 Most Dangerous Phishing Email Subjects

Jan 9, 2014 1:32:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Websense has posted some interesting new phishing research a few days ago. They started out: "With cloud infrastructure easily scalable and rented botnets coming on the cheap, the cost of ...

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