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Tag Archives: Security Awareness
Survey Says 80% of Security Risks are Users
Bromium surveyed 100 security professionals to see what they thought their biggest security risk was. Through my own research, I have found that the best way to give security awareness training, is NOT this way, with one time security awareness … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, compliance, Information Technology Security Awareness, risk, Security Awareness
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SpearPhishing in Omaha Tricked a Financial Controller to send $17.2 Million to China
The FBI was brought in to investigate The Scoular Company after the controller wired $17.2 million dollars to China through their accounting firm, KPMG. There were emails to the controller from an email address that resembled but was not the … Continue reading
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Tagged Information Technology Security Awareness, Omaha, phishing, Scoular, Security Awareness, social engineering, spear phishing, spearphishing, two-factor
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Phishing Anthem
Since my original posting about the Anthem Health Insurance Breach… Investigators believe the cyber crooks compromised the logins from 5 different tech workers, possibly through a phishing scheme that could have tricked them into unknowingly revealing a password or downloading … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Anthem, breach, Identity Theft, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering
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Convenience Traded for Privacy: Samsung Televisions
Cool new technologies like the Samsung voice controlled television, are a great convenience. They are also a huge window for the Samsung company to get into your homes. When you enable voice control, all noises are transmitted to Samsung and … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, android, iPhone, OK Google, privacy, samsung, Security Awareness, siri, televisions, voice commands
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Intuit’s Turbo Tax
Was shut down to investigate if there was a breach as many had logged in to find that their refunds were already claimed. It was found that no breach occurred. According to Brian Krebs, both Turbo Tax and H&RBlock credentials … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Brian Krebs, credentials, phishing, Security Awareness, tax refund
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From Russia with Love Letters
A Russian team allegedly breached the Sony entertainment company’s network by sending spear phishing emails containing a remote access Trojan (RAT) to Sony employees in India, Russia and other Asian countries. Once they had access to the computers of these … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hackers, phishing, remote access trojan, russian, Security Awareness, sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment
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110,000 People are Looking For Love in all the Wrong Places
and getting a nasty infection too. A click-bait trick where a picture is made to look like a video that ‘requires’ Flash is circulating Facebook. The malware installs a Trojan to the computer, allowing the mouse and keyboard to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Facebook, Facebook Scam, keylogger, malvertising, malware, pervert, Security Awareness, trojan
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Spear Phishing
Cyber thieves stole nearly $215 million from businesses in the last 14 months using email scams. Once a high level exec has his or her email compromised, the bad guys lurk, learn the schedules, learn the business, learn the business … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Brian Krebs, cybercrime, email, hackers, phishing, Security Awareness, spoof
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Data Privacy Day: 2015
Every January 28th, is Data Privacy Day. A good reminder to police yourself and clean up your digital footprint you left on the Internet. The 2nd Annual Report on How Personal Technology is Changing Our Lives, reports that Privacy is … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, digital privacy day, doxed, doxing, privacy, Security Awareness
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