Scammers sink to a new low with these phone scams preying on the fears of U.S. citizens offering hopes of better protecting themselves from the Coronavirus. We’ve all received robocalls by now, but a new group of calls centered around the coronavirus has received the attention of the FCC. Covering a wide range of themes, […]
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[Heads-up] Will Proposed New Laws *Ban* Making Ransomware Payments?
The ransomware scourge has become much worse the last 12 months. Highly organized cybercrime gangs have iterated their attacks into a massive extortion racket. They are focusing on easy prey, and recently dozens of local governments, school systems and non-profits have been infected, apart from very visible large companies that suffered weeks of downtime. To […]
Phishing Campaign Impersonates Email Alerts From DHS
An ongoing email-based phishing scam is attempting to fool recipients into opening malicious attachments disguised as notifications from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in a warning posted on the official US-CERT web site this past Tuesday. “The email campaign uses a spoofed email address to […]
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Phishing Accounts for 50% of All Fraud Attacks [InfoGraphic]
According to the latest research from RSA, attacks intent on committing financial fraud most frequently begin with tried and true phishing. Financial fraud is a lucrative business for cybercriminals. Running the gambit from targeting banks directly to social engineering used to giving up online credentials or a credit card, there are a myriad of ways […]
Canada has a new cybersecurity strategy – does it impact you?
Do you do business with companies in Canada? A recent government survey showed that although 94% of Canadian business collect personal data from their customers, they still have a long way to go to in protecting it, with three quarters of the business executives and owners having never reviewed their responsibilities and one third not […]
Which phishing messages have a near 100% click rate?
Zeljika at HelpnetSecurity had a great summary of Wombat’s latest State of the Phish report: “Training employees to spot phishing emails, messages and phone calls can’t be done just once or once a year if the organization wants to see click rates decrease. For one thing, employees come and go (and change roles) with regularity. […]
State of Cybersecurity 2018
Did you know? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take affect May 25, 2018. This will affect global organizations that hold or process personal data of any European Union resident. The definition of “personal data” is much more broad than in current US compliance regulations, and penalties for non-compliance are 20 million Euros or […]
The Fiction Behind IT Security Confidence
http://www.solarwinds.com/siem-security-information-event-management-software.aspx David Monahan, Director of Security and Risk Management for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) will …
F-Secure: "We see things others don’t."
F-Secure’s 25 years have been rich in innovation. F-Secure established the world’s first computer security website, created the first real-time antivirus pro…
Deprovisioning administrative access: How careful are you?
FBI investigation on Shionogi security incident reveals the involvement of a former employee Lord Tennyson’s immortal words “Men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever” hold good universally.