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The Lovely Mia Ash
Have you ever seen that spam on Facebook where someone posts, if you see a friend request from so-and-so, don’t accept it, it’s a hacker! Yeah, this post is ‘kind-of‘ like that. Well, Mia Ash is a whole online persona … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, Mia Ash, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, spear phishing
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2016 San Francisco CISO Executive Summit
I had the privilege of attending the 2016 CISO Executive Summit in San Francisco on Monday the 5th. I went with a great group of people! There was a lot of good discussions regarding leadership, insider threats, third party management, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, CISO, cybercrime, Executive, information security, insider threats, Internet of Things, Security Awareness, social engineering, Summit
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What to Watch To Learn A Little CyberSecurity
Do you like to be entertained? I know I do! Here are some shows and movies that I recommend. Brian Brushwood’s Hacking the System
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Tagged 2016, hackers, hacking, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, spear phishing, spearphishing, video tutorial
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Top 5 CyberThreats of 2016 To Attack or Defend Against
Depending on what color hat you wear, here are the top cyberthreats that most companies face, according to research. 5. Cross Site Scripting or XSS Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, advanced persistent threat, application security, APT, behavioral, cross site scripting, cyber risk, hackers, information security, insider threats, personnel risk assessment, pra, Security Awareness, social engineering, sql injection, top 5, xss
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Verizon Breached. Check!
Creator of the infamous Data Breach Investigations Report has themselves been breached. Contacted about the posting, Verizon Enterprise told KrebsOnSecurity that the company recently identified a security flaw in its site that permitted hackers to steal customer contact information, and that … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, breach, breach report, Brian Krebs, data breaches, dbir, verizon
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This Guy Asks Hackers to Ruin His Life!
An eye-opening video about the capability of hack attacks, from social engineering to complete digital-life and real life takeover. Not only is the journalist asking people to do it, experts blatantly show how they do it. Please take the time … Continue reading
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Tagged car hacking, Internet of Things, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, video tutorial, vishing
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Valid Apple Employee Logins Worth Up To $23,000
At the Apple headquarters of Cork, Ireland, low hanging fruit employees are being offered to sell their logins online, for up to $23,000 US. Easy Pickings! An employee login is very valuable, allowing for legitimate authentication to internal systems can … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Apple, bribe, bribes, logins, passwords, Security Awareness, sell logins, social engineering
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Scottrade Breach
“Cybercriminals had unauthorized access to our network for a period of several months between late 2013 and early 2014” According to a Cyber Security Alert page on Scottrade, Federal investigators found indicators that prove Scottrade’s network and systems was used. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, 2014, 2015, breach, cybercrime, hacked, information security, phishing, Scottrade, social engineering
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Security Awareness Memes
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Tagged 2015, lol, memes, Security Awareness
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Business Email Compromise Leads to $737,000 Transfer to China
The FBI classifies “phishing that leads to loss” as Business Email Compromise (BEC). In a recently released story that closely matches the BEC hack in Omaha I wrote about back in February, another company fell victim to a spearphishing attack … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cybercrime, FBI, fraud, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, vishing
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