CSO Magazine has a great piece on social engineering/phishing scams. The article quotes both vendors that we resell – Wombat and KnowBe4. Bottom line – the Verizon 2016 data breach report says that 30 percent of the phishing emails were opened compared to 23 percent last year. 12 percent clicked on the link. If 12 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Leoni makes cables and wiring harnesses for cars, trucks, healthcare systems, appliances and many other products. They operate worldwide, are publicly traded, have 75,000 employees and in 2015 had sales of over 4 billion euros. You would think that a company like this would not fall for a business email compromise scam. But they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This week, Microsoft released it’s September patch dump. 14 security bulletins. 50 vulnerabilities in Windows. 26 more vulnerabilities in Flash player that was bundled with the Edge browser. The patches affect Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, OLE Automation, VB Scripting and Flash, among others. Other Microsoft products patched include Silverlight and Exchange server. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers released a series of exploits that they said belong to an NSA contractor that has been called the Equation Group. Whether the Equation Group is real and whether they are a vendor of exploits to the NSA or not is really not terribly relevant in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is always rewarding when well respected people write published articles supporting an argument that you have been making for years. I guess I was just slightly ahead of my time. In this case, my point has been that law firms are a huge target for hackers – and not just the large law firms. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has decided to lead the way on web, as it often has. In this case, Google has announced that as of January 1, 2017, web pages that transmit credit cards or ask for passwords over HTTP (vs. HTTPS) will be marked with this flag in the address bar: Some of will say that this […]
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