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 ...

Your AntiVirus Does Not See NSA's Botnet

Nov 23, 2013 12:03:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The revelations are getting wilder by the week. The NSA has its own botnet, they infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive ...

Why you shouldn’t connect to just any free Wi-Fi

Nov 21, 2013 11:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our friends at MalwareBytes put up a great blog post that explains in detail why you should not just connect to any free Wi-Fi. The risk is that you will connect to a hostile Wi-Fi access ...

A Serious Legal Liability: Bad or No Security Awareness Training

Oct 28, 2013 7:45:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Please read this article and then forward it to the head of your legal department or the person in your organization who is responsible for compliance. Recently, the Department of Health ...

Even the tech-savvy get their accounts hacked...

Oct 23, 2013 10:06:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Steve Ragan , Staff Writer at CSO wrote: "October 22, 2013 — The millennial generation, those of us who were born and raised alongside the Internet, should be wise enough to avoid ...

Spear phishing alert: Hong Kong Monetary Authority Invoice

Oct 12, 2013 9:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Experts warn that cybercriminals are using fake Hong Kong Monetary Authority invoices to distribute a piece of malware. The emails are entitled “Invoice #3404196 – Remit File” and they ...

More Likely to Fall for a Phishing Scam If You’re a Neurotic Woman?

Oct 7, 2013 9:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Softpedia published an article I have a problem with. There is so much wrong with this that I don't even know where to start. They started out with:

Inside The Adobe Databreach Disaster

Oct 7, 2013 9:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week Adobe announced probably the worst news ever for a tech company. Both their source code and customer lists had been stolen. EPIC FAIL!

Scam Of The Week: Affordable Health Care "Advisers"

Sep 30, 2013 2:53:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tomorrow, Tuesday October 1, 2013, the first stage of the new health care act kicks in. You can start shopping for policies on new insurance "marketplaces". There is going to be an ...

Your Employees' Identity -Has- Been Stolen

Sep 30, 2013 9:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is the expression that there are two kinds of companies. The ones that know they are hacked and the ones that don't. It's safe to assume your network has already been compromised ...

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