Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Today it was reported through several sources that a new Cybercrime-as-a-Service option is available: creation of fake scanned passports, ID cards, driver's licenses and fake scanned ...
We are finding many U.S. commercial email addresses at the Russianemailsworld.boommer.ru website. It is really a 'staging' area for emails to be posted by the criminal underground. They ...
You would think that by now journalists and people in media and advertising would be on the alert for social engineering red flags. But no. Syrian hacktivists sent a spear-phishing attack ...
Less than 500 employees? You’ve got a 20 percent chance of being hacked, and if it happens there’s a good chance your business is finished.
Vint Cerf – Photo by Charles Haynes
FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center Ransomware
The Internet has its own Red Light District, and it is one of the most unsafe areas you can browse. Online porn is a profitable sideline for the adult industry, but a mainline business ...
Antivirus company Bitdefender reported something important. Here is their blog post of July 17, 2003.
Reuters just reported that Congressional aides in the Senate and House of Representatives said on Thursday that they were notified of a potential security risk involving email and other ...
Steve Rangan over at the The CSO site wrote:
There is a new phishing campaign doing the rounds trying to get your Twitter login credentials. The scam arrives as a direct messages to prospective victims from one of their contacts. ...
Ira Winkler and Samantha Manke just wrote a great article at the CSO site about why security awareness programs fail. They started out with: "There is a great dichotomy in Security ...
There is a fascinating article in SC Magazine dated July 3, 2013 which tells the story of Atlantic Media Chief Technology Officer Tom Cochran, who blasted out a simulated phishing email ...
One - Insider Threat: Stealing valuable information for either profit or idealistic motives. Examples: Software developers taking home code for their next job, sales people downloading ...
From the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Note that i t only takes 20 emails to get one successful click on a phishing attack. Read the story above!
Spear-phishing attacks are up, and they are targeting individuals across all industries, according to a new warning issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .
Seen "World War Z" recently? Your mobile phone might soon be infected and become a zombie.
Price Waterhouse (PwC) and CSO Magazine just released their 2013 State of Cybercrime Survey. It shows that lack of risk awareness means companies are poorly defended. This is their 11th ...
