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 ...

Symantec: Crypto Ransomware Phishing Up 700 Percent in 2014

Sep 12, 2014 5:06:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Very interesting data from Symantec. This is fresh from the press and shows Phishing, Spam and Malware trends. There is a PDF with a whole bunch more data, but these are the most relevant ...

Cyber Criminals Use AEA-256 Crypto To Obfuscate Phishing Sites

Sep 10, 2014 10:47:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Register said: "Well, at least someone listened to Snowden about privacy... Phishing fraudsters have begun using industry-standard AES-256 encryption to disguise the content of ...

KnowBe4's Email Exposure Check Discovers Data Breach

Aug 18, 2014 3:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

You are probably aware of the free one-time Email Exposure Check Pro (EEC Pro) we can run for you. We find all the email addresses of your domain that are out there available on the ...

Phishing: 4.5 million Community Health patients records stolen

Aug 18, 2014 1:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

n">(Reuters) - Community Health Systems Inc, one of the biggest U.S. hospital groups, said it was the victim of a cyber attack that originated in China, resulting in the theft of ...

Tenn. Firm Sues Bank Over $327K Cyberheist

Aug 13, 2014 1:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: See Robin Williams Last Words On Video

Aug 12, 2014 9:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last night, news broke that Robin Williams was found dead in his home in Marin County, CA. It is suspected that it was either a suicide or an overdose. This is a celebrity death that the ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Free World Cup Trip To Brazil

Jun 10, 2014 4:34:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

CryptoLocker Clone Serves Up Energy Bill Spam Campaign

Jun 10, 2014 9:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

CryptoLocker Goes SpearPhishing

May 17, 2014 11:26:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Microsoft to XP You Are Dead To Us

May 16, 2014 10:36:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Microsoft to XP: "You Are Dead To Us". This week, Redmond reminded all of us still running XP that we would not receive security updates on Patch Tuesday or any future patches of any kind.

Phishing Attacks Work Best On Wednesday, Coming From IT

Apr 15, 2014 4:16:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I had a look at the recent Mandiant M-Trends report. Interesting stuff. They observed that employees seem to fall for hacking tricks mostly on Wednesdays, and are most likely to click on ...

ALERT - CryptoLocker Has A Competitor That Is Worse: CryptoDefense

Apr 1, 2014 6:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

As we said before, there is furious competition between cybergangs. Late February 2014 a copycat ransomware competitor to Cryptolocker was released which outdoes CryptoLocker. The malware ...

Attacks Give Lift to Cyber Insurance

Mar 27, 2014 2:34:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today in the Wall Street Journal, reporter Leslie Scism quoted Bloomberg News that "Target's data breach 'was the equivalent of 10 free Super Bowl ads."

Hackers hit Monster Jobs users with Gameover Zeus malware

Mar 27, 2014 7:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Companies that are recruiting new employees are being targeted through Monster Jobs. The bad guys are using malware called Gameover Zeus, security firm F-secure reported in a blog post ...

Target Breach: Where The Weak Points Were

Mar 18, 2014 4:47:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dave Kearns posted March 18 that he's been fascinated by the information that keeps coming out of the Taget Stores data breach. He's got a great analysis, and he ends off with words that ...

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