Sophisticated Tools Can Help Detect Phishing; Most Who Use Them Just Don't Configure Them To
Just like email, phishing attacks are a part of life these days. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to detect and filter out...
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Forged WordPress Plugin May Allow Backdoor Access for Hackers
A forged plugin for the open source website creation tool, WordPress may allow attackers to get backdoor access to the servers...
Analytics Cup Winners Help Companies Predict the Cost of a Data Breach
Each semester, Professor Ronald Klimberg of St. Joseph's University holds a competition for his Advanced Analytics students. The...
Breach Disclosure Laws May Benefit FIs With Respect to Customer Loyalty
It seems that data breach disclosure requirements are not necessarily bad if you’re a financial institution (FI). A Carnegie...
Researchers Discovered Sophisticated Methods Used in Recent Spear-Phishing Attack
Researchers from a company that provides products for detecting malware in email, have found a recent spear-phishing attack at a...
Storage Limit Reached Scam Tricks Users Out of Email Credentials
The average user gets somewhere between 50 and 100 email messages per day and that takes up storage space somewhere. Wherever it...
Review of Some of the Most Notorious Banking Trojans
Banking Trojans are one of the top tools cyberthieves deploy in order to make a buck. These are strictly designed to steal login...
Reasons Why Companies Don't Make Cybersecurity Improvements Until After an Attack
Malvertising campaigns have started employing middlemen (brokers) to constantly change up the servers used to mask their...
Google Finds Companies Receive Considerably More Malware in Inboxes Than Individuals
Google’s provided some interesting statistics at the recent RSA security conference. If you happened to stop by that presentation...
Botnets Turn Your Network Into The Walking Dead. Are You at Risk?
Botnets made great strides in 2016, although they’ve been around for at least a decade causing trouble in the Internet of Things...
Corporate America Found to be a Big Ransomware Target in 2016
Security company Malwarebytes has some pretty interesting statistics for Corporate America. In their 2017 State of Malware report...
Phishing Attacks Move In a New Direction. Are Your Accounts In The Hackers Sights?
Historically, phishers have been in the game to make a buck. Sometimes, that’s a lot of bucks. And they still are. However, the...