Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
System admins hold the keys to the kingdom. The NSA is actively hunting for system admin credentials. A popular way to get you to click on something that installs zero-day malware on your ...
It's still not clear (and it may never be discovered) how the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK) hackers came in, perhaps they used all available threat vectors since ...
It does not get any worse than this. Or better than this, if you are a criminal hacker. Domain-name management organization ICANN announced it has been hacked and its DNS zone ...
Bleeping Computer had the scoop again: " A new ransomware has been released called KEYHolder that is from the same developers of CryptorBit . Like CryptorBit, this infection encrypts your ...
#1 OphionLocker The first one is a new strain of ransomware named OphionLocker. It encrypts your data using strong open source Crypto++ Elliptical Curve Cryptography and then ransoms the ...
The lack of awareness and understanding of risks is one of the biggest challenges to information security, according to a panel of experts. Research showed that 93% of data breaches ...
MalwareBytes Research showed that in the year 2014, 82% of companies were attacked online. Their research also showed that browser vulnerabilities will be the biggest challenge going ...
Our friends at Wombat created a good summary why security awareness training is a must these days. Why?
What if you knew beforehand about mergers and acquisitions, and could trade with that inside information? Well that's been going on for more than a year.
Homeland Security Today has a good article which explains that cybersecurity education, including employee training and awareness programs, is vital in deterring cybercrime. The ...
This week the FTC shut down a $120M tech support scam that consumer software buyers should be aware of. Two telemarketing firms were at the center of this FTC investigation, but there are ...
Associated Press just reported that the State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from ...
It's been more than a year since the first vicious ransomware stuck up its ugly head.
There is a current, active cybercrime campaign going, using the tempting lure of free pizza, researchers at Cloudmark warned. They spotted new spam emails claiming to be a campaign from ...
The Payment Card Industry Council thinks Security Awareness Training is so important that they just published a 25-page guidance paper that fully explains the why, how and what of ...
I have been warning here before that Ebola phishing attacks would be more and more prevalent, as a result of the mass-media spending increasing amounts of time covering this threat.
Fresh from Dark reading: "When it comes to social engineering, Pogo, the central character of a long-running American comic strip, said it best. "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Researchers in Russia discovered a new Android ransomware strain which does not lock the device just once but twice. It spreads by using a social engineering trick, disguising itself as a ...
The massive security breaches and theft of credit card information at The Home Depot and Target have something in common. They were both allowed by a vulnerability in XP embedded that was ...
