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Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Tyler Moffitt, Threat Team Member at Webroot wrote:
It's summer and a lot of people are on the road, but some of your employees are always traveling for business, and often these are management-level people with access to lots of ...
We surveyed over 300 system administrators regarding ransomware, here are the results:
Ever hear of CoinDesk? They are a news site about pricing and other info about digital currencies. They reported a fascinating phishing attack on a list of auction participants.
Security experts have warned for years that our smartphones are due for a major cyberattack. Like PCs back in the early days -- the 1990s -- mobile phones are largely unprotected by ...
The United States continued to host the majority of phishing websites in the first quarter of 2014, but did not even crack the top 36 when it came to global computer infection rates, ...
Let me be clear from the get-go: maybe partially but never 100%. Hundreds of IT security companies have tried and failed, just look at the malware infections you are battling regularly. ...
The 2014 FIFA World Cup football (soccer) has kicked off this week, and so have phishing campaigns trying to trick you into scams for free tickets, realtime news and online streaming of ...
And here's another ransomware wannabe that has ripped off the CryptoLocker brand but is something totally different. A recent spam campaign sending out emails masquerading as an ...
Cartoon: Parenting is very different in 2014 compared to 1989! "That ransomware payment is coming out of your allowance."
Ok, unless you were on an Internet-free vacation (fat chance); you have heard that eBay managed to lose all its 145 million credentials.
I thought you would enjoy this cartoon! LOL Stu
You may be familiar with a site called Spiceworks. They have free system admin and network management software, and their business model is advertising to the hundreds of thousands that ...
This could be a very expensive scam to fall for, so keep on reading.
Ready to be hit upon by the likes of Anna Chapman? MI5 in the UK warned that foreign spy agencies are targeting IT workers within big organizations as a means of gaining privileged access ...
An Eastern European Cyber Mafia has been found to run a multi-year campaign that targets small U.S. banks and credit unions with a sophisticated VoIP phishing scheme (aka vishing) to ...
During the first quarter, I have been warning about the coming wave of Windows XP-related scams having to do with the April 8 End Of Life of XP. Here is what you can expect, and many ...
Love your tall latte? Better watch it, as a "friend" might send you an email with a fake Starbucks Coffee Gift offer. These emails read something like this in broken english. "Your friend ...
This week, Wall Street Journal MarketWatch reporter Priya Anand quoted me in an article she wrote about the new wave of ransomware phishing attacks.
