Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Credit card numbers are small potatoes. Big-time computer hackers are after proprietary information: source code, pharmaceutical research, legal documents, chemical formulas, blueprints, ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
8/19/2015 UPDATE: Yesterday the full 10 Gigabyte database was released on the Internet, with all records including confidential files related to the company itself. People that registered ...
According to the 2015 Black Hat Attendee Survey, nearly three quarters (73 percent) of top security professionals think it likely that their organizations will be hit with a major data ...
A British hedgefund lost more than a million dollars in a social engineering attack on their Chief Financial Officer Thomas Meston, and there is an expensive court case going on because ...
OK, so here is the latest scam of the week, possibly fueled by the recent news that we have run out of IPv4 addresses in the U.S. Employees receive an email which claims to be from the ...
An Eastern European cybercrime gang has started a new TorrentLocker ransomware campaign where whole websites of energy companies, government organizations and large enterprises are being ...
"Newly leaked, confidential documents have revealed details into a cyberattack aimed at Bitstamp, a company that fundamentally deals as a cryptocurrency trader, according to a report in ...
And yes, as we predicted, there are now phishing attacks that mimic Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach notifications. The breach has expanded to millions more records. It ...
You may not be aware that there is a scale of seven deadly vices connected to social engineering (SE). The deadliest SE attacks are the ones that have the highest success rates, often ...
The SANS InfoSec Forums noted that since Monday May 25th a new version of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware started, using both malicious spam and the Angler exploit kit (EK). The attack wave has ...
You may know Gartner, the 800-pound gorilla in the IT Analyst space. When a market is mature enough they create their so-called Magic Quadrant (MQ) with the leading vendors in that ...
