Tag Archives: phishing

Cyber Monday is Tomorrow, Please be Cyber Secure

Be sure to stop and think about where you are when you are out and about, don’t use public wifi hotspots. It’s cyber hunting time and your data is the target and it is very easy for malicious evil doers … Continue reading

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Google Infographic on Account Hijackers

They have a great article here for more information.

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Conmen Evolved

Unless you are completely off the grid and don’t even read newspapers, it is hard to avoid the data breaches announced in the news. It’s not just techie news anymore either, with the big named news shows on the television … Continue reading

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The Postal Service Suffered a Cybersecurity Breach

The data of 800,000 people potentially compromised for employee and customer personal information, including addresses, Social Security numbers and emails. The USPS is working with the FBI, Justice Department and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team to investigate the breach. … Continue reading

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Tales from the Encrypt (RSA Video)

Happy Halloween!

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Breaches, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities in October 2014

This might be the longest one I’ve done so far: List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October http://t.co/AtYQ3vBJEa — Lewis Morgan (@LewisMorgan_) October 28, 2014 Payment information breach Dairy Queen Data breach hits 395 stores ‘Big K’ raided … Continue reading

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2-Factor on LinkedIn

If you use LinkedIn, like I do. Enable 2-factor authentication to keep your professional profile and contacts secured. How embarrassing would it be if you are advertising yourself as a security and privacy professional and someone gets into your account … Continue reading

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Emailed PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office Attachments

A vulnerability, designated as CVE-2014-6352, is triggered when a user is forced to open a PowerPoint files containing a malicious Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) object. All Office file types can also be used to carry out same attack. The … Continue reading

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Social Engineering Fraud by Chubb Insurance

A great little video on Social Engineering fraud.

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SandWorm

On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, iSIGHT Partners – in close collaboration with Microsoft – announced the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability impacting all supported versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server 2008 and 2012. Microsoft has patched this vulnerability in … Continue reading

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