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 ...

FBI: “Beta Bot” malware kills your anti-virus and steals data

Sep 20, 2013 2:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, the FBI sent out a warning that a strain of malware known as "Beta Bot" can turn off your antivirus, stops access to the websites of antivirus vendors so that your antivirus ...

Is Your Security Awareness Training Program Broken?

Sep 17, 2013 4:39:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steve Ragan over at CSO Magazine wrote:

RAPID7 SECURING USER RISK

Sep 17, 2013 3:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Rapid7 found 66% of IT professionals conduct user security awareness training to reduce the risk of successful phishing attacks.

Kevin Mitnick Details Modern IT Threats; spear phishing and more

Sep 2, 2013 12:50:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

One of the most infamous hackers of all time talks about Website security and what users should do to protect themselves. In the world of computer security hackers, few are as well-known ...

SEA used spear-phishing in attack on NY Times

Aug 29, 2013 1:45:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A spear-phishing attack, one of the most common and oldest cyber tricks in the book, enabled hackers to hijack and modify the DNS records for several domains on Tuesday, including The New ...

Cybercrime Automates Fake ID's For Spear-phishing

Aug 28, 2013 9:39:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today it was reported through several sources that a new Cybercrime-as-a-Service option is available: creation of fake scanned passports, ID cards, driver's licenses and fake scanned ...

IT Security Is Broken Bad

Aug 18, 2013 11:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With the TV show Breaking Bad in its last season, this seems to be a fun title. However, the topic is not all that much fun. You should realize it's not a question of when you will be ...

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