Wow. That is an impressive number. As I have talked about before, what the insurance industry calls business email compromise or BEC and what the FBI is calling CEO email fraud is a very lucrative business at $2.3 billion since January 2015. The way it works is the attacker does a little research on the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As you are probably aware, the number of publicly announced ransomware attacks seem to be going up geometrically. Some examples in the last month include: Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center – their systems were down for 10 days until they paid a ransom Henderson Kentucky Methodist Hospital Desert Valley and Chino Valley hospitals in Southern California […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are responsible for your cyber incident response team and you discover that you may have been breached – like the Trump Hotels this week – who should you call, and how should you contact them? I will answer the and how part first because it is easier. Walking down the hall is best. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While The Trump Hotel Collection is “investigating” yet another breach at their luxury hotel chain, Brian Krebs is reporting that three different sources in the financial sector have told him that they have noticed “a pattern of fraud” that suggests that hackers have breached security at some, if not all, properties in the Trump hotel […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is unlikely that, by now, you have not heard about the Panama Papers. On Sunday, over a hundred news outlets, working together, released stories based on the internal documents of a Panama and Las Vegas based law firm. Working from 2.73 terabytes of data stolen from that law firm representing almost 5 million emails, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This article was updated at 1443 on 02 April 2016. In the largest study of its kind, commissioned by the NASDAQ, 90% of corporate executives surveyed said that they cannot read a cybersecurity report and are not prepared to handle a major attack. More distressing is that 40% of executives don’t feel responsible for the […]
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