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 ...

Phishing FaceBook: Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted

Mar 15, 2014 11:04:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers jump on every opportunity they can to trick people. This time they hijacked to story about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

New Phishing Scam Promises Bitcoins

Mar 15, 2014 8:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Lily Newman at the Future Tense blog wrote this post for the slate site, after Slate's news editor Chad Lorenz received a new phishing email purportedly from coinbase, who happily ...

Scam Of The Week: "You may have cancer" phishing email

Mar 13, 2014 7:19:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Amy Stevens of the PR group Davies Murphy became part of the story when Eduard Kovacs at SoftPedia picked up on her tweet about a phishing email she just received. If you recently had a ...

When A Stranger Calls

Mar 10, 2014 10:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dr. Neal Krawetz posted something very useful over at the hackerfactor. Apart from that it's also very entertaining. He is legally recording various cold-calls he gets. Some of them are ...

Inevitable: Phishing That Pretends To Be Salesforce.com

Mar 6, 2014 8:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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, ...

How to Test the Phishing Savvy of Your Staff

Mar 5, 2014 1:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

41 Percent Of Infected Pay The Cryptolocker Ransom

Mar 1, 2014 9:10:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Hackers Used Spear Phishing Attack To Hack CNN Blogs

Feb 21, 2014 2:56:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Kiss Your Old Security Awareness Training Program Goodbye!

Feb 18, 2014 11:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Not Working? Are Users Still Clicking Phishing Links And Opening Infected Attachments?

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.

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