Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Just a heads-up, screen shot above. The lifehacker site in Australia warned about a phishing scam using a "salesforce" email as bait. The bad guys will use anything to get you to click, ...
I have warned about the Cryptolocker ransomware before, but now we have some hard numbers about the percentage of people that are forced to pay up when a workstation or server has been ...
Security analysts at Intelligence firm InterCrawler published the details of the investigation on recent attack against CNN Blogs and social media accounts. Recently a few social media ...
Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Not Working? Are Users Still Clicking Phishing Links And Opening Infected Attachments?
It's my job to keep an eye out for the most recent phishing scams and let everyone know. One of the newsletters I get as a source for this is called "hoaxslayer". They just reported some ...
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 ...
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06
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 ...
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. ...
Looks like the bad guys are also targeting Europe with ransomware phishing scams.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
