Premera And Anthem Both Hacked Using Shrewd Social Engineering

Mar 21, 2015 10:11:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Health records are the new credit cards. They have a longer shelf life and are often easier to get. There are more opportunities for fraud. No wonder that bad guys are after them with a ...

Report: 71 percent successfully spear-phished in 2014

Mar 14, 2015 5:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Adam Greenberg at SC Magazine reported on something interesting:

Spear Phishing Attack Nearly Costs FL City $500K

Mar 12, 2015 2:12:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A spear-phishing last month at Orange Park City Hall almost got away with $500,000 from the city's bank account. Fortunately it was caught in time so that a wire transfer that already had ...

Billion Dollar Carbanak Cyberheist

Feb 16, 2015 8:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As promised, here is more data about the Carbanak cyberheist in addition to the original post First of all, a map that shows the IP addresses of the institutions that were hit. Kaspersky ...

World's Biggest Cyberheist Cybergang Phished $900 Million Out Of Banks

Feb 15, 2015 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than 100 financial institutions in 30 countries have been the victim of a cyberheist that lasted in some cases almost 2 years. This was not a smash-and-grab but a highly ...

Spear Phishing Attack Makes $17.2 Million In Three Days

Feb 7, 2015 12:36:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Corporate cybercrime on an international scale has hit one of Omaha’s biggest and oldest companies. CEO Chuck Elsea's email address was spoofed and this cost them millions because their ...

Data Breach at Health Insurer Anthem 80 million records

Feb 5, 2015 7:55:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last updated Feb 7, 2015 - Both the Wall Street Journal and cyber security blogger Brian Krebs reported that Anthem Inc., the nation’s second largest health insurer disclosed that hackers ...

NY Times: North Koreans hacked Sony with spear-phishing attacks.

Jan 19, 2015 1:53:12 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The next revelation about the Sony Picture hack: The NSA was already inside the North Korean's networks and could have warned Sony about the pending attack.

Nine Data Breaches That Cost Someone Their Job

Dec 25, 2014 8:44:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Following last year’s big announcement of not just Target’s data breach but executive job loss, CSO lays out 9 data breaches resulting in job loss. They compare Target alongside other ...

Phishing Attack on German Steel Factory System Caused Massive Damage

Dec 23, 2014 3:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers breached security of a German steel mill's network and caused considerable damage by manipulating the controls of a blast furnace. The attackers gained access to the network ...

Malware Used To Wipe Sony's Drives Was Quick And Dirty

Dec 22, 2014 9:44:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Hackers Spear-phish ICANN And Compromise DNS Zone System

Dec 18, 2014 3:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Ransomware Beats APT In Terms Of Severe Impact

Dec 13, 2014 12:37:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Phishing Quiz: Can You Spot A Scam? Don't Be So Sure

Dec 13, 2014 12:06:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Quiz: Can You Spot A Scam? Don't Be So Sure CBSNews wrote: "Phishing emails have gotten so convincing that even the experts can be taken in by a well-crafted fake. That's what ...

How Was Sony Pictures Hacked?

Dec 8, 2014 7:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Mandia, who was hired as the forensics expert wrote in a letter to Sony's CEO that the breach was unprecedented, well-planned and carried out by an "organized group". It's the most ...

Savvy Hackers Use Spearphishing to steal Wall Street M&A info

Dec 1, 2014 8:02:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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.

STATE DEPT COMPUTERS HACKED, EMAIL SHUT DOWN

Nov 17, 2014 9:33:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

New Flavor of Ransomware Is More User Friendly

Nov 15, 2014 2:48:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's been more than a year since the first vicious ransomware stuck up its ugly head.

Small business thinks workers are weak cybersecurity link

Nov 13, 2014 4:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The poll was conducted by Spiceworks Voice of IT on behalf of CloudEntr in September. The study collected 438 surveys from IT professionals at companies with 20 to 499 employees in ...

Home Depot Hackers Also Steal 53 Million Email Addresses

Nov 7, 2014 8:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As if it wasn't bad enough to lose 56 million credit card accounts, now Home Depot has to admit it also lost 53 million email addresses. This gives the bad guys a fabulous opportunity to ...

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