This Week Top 10 Phishing Scams

Feb 17, 2014 4:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Cryptolocker Scrambles All Legal Files Of US Law Firm

Feb 10, 2014 7:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Why Cybercrime Pays Off

Feb 5, 2014 11:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

FBI: The 10 Criminal Cyber Crime Professions

Feb 3, 2014 3:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Worst Phishing Scam Of The Week Yet: Cryptolocker

Feb 1, 2014 8:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Scam Of The Week: Funeral Notification Phishing Attack

Jan 29, 2014 4:33:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Arg The Cat O Nine Tails For Careless Clickers

Jan 25, 2014 11:17:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Arg! The Cat O' Nine Tails For Careless Clickers!

SHOCKER: Point-Of-Failure Phishing Training Does Not Work

Jan 22, 2014 12:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Govinfosecurity site just reported on some very interesting scientific research that finds so-called "embedded training" is ineffective. Let's quickly define "embedded", they chose ...

WSJ: Did Hackers Got Into Target With Spear-phishing

Jan 22, 2014 9:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today (Jan 22, 2014) Wall Street Journal reporters Charles Levinson and Danny Yadron had a good summary of the current status of the Target Hack.

The History Of Hacking In 5 Minutes For Dummies

Jan 12, 2014 12:40:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

What do you do when you need to explain the history of hacking to a busy non-technical manager in five minutes or less? Here is an attempt to make this extremely complex subject into a ...

Target Databreach Now 110 Mil Cards - Neiman Marcus Hacked Too

Jan 12, 2014 10:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It goes from bad to worse. The initial 40 million turns out to be really 110 million. Apparently the forensics team discovered another 70 million cards exfiltrated. And then the news ...

5 Most Dangerous Phishing Email Subjects

Jan 9, 2014 1:32:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Websense has posted some interesting new phishing research a few days ago. They started out: "With cloud infrastructure easily scalable and rented botnets coming on the cheap, the cost of ...

Firm Bankrupted by Cyberheist Sues Bank

Jan 8, 2014 11:53:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Grows 427% Year Over Year

Jan 1, 2014 9:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fake Adobe licence key delivery phishing emails carry malware

Dec 20, 2013 9:43:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Eastern European Hackers Hit Target Phish Out 40M Credit Cards

Dec 19, 2013 8:16:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

During the Black Friday shopping week, tens of millions of credit and debit card records were "phished" out of Target. The data breach was nationwide, and has extended for as far as ...

Interesting info on phishing and social engineering on 60 minutes

Dec 16, 2013 9:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last weekend, 60-minutes had a special about the NSA which spoke out on Snowden and spying. The headline was: "The NSA gives unprecedented access to the agency's HQ and, for the first ...

10 Social Engineering Predictions for 2014

Dec 7, 2013 1:36:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here are 10 predictions for 2014, all cyber attacks using social engineering to penetrate the network. Have fun reading, and I will try to report back in 12 months which ones came out as ...

Social Engineering Causes Seattle Hospital 90K Databreach

Dec 2, 2013 7:46:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Personal Health Information of 90,000 patients was accesssed by hackers because an employee opened an infected email attachment early October this year. When will they learn that ...

The Antivirus Industry’s Dirty Little Secret

Nov 28, 2013 8:46:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[Updated 5/1/2016]. The Antivirus industry has a dirty little secret that they really don’t want anyone to know. Despite the claims of their marketing departments, their products are not ...

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