Search Results for "email account hijacking"


  • SIM Swap Fraud Is Growing
    In the middle of the day your cell phone mysteriously goes dead.  Later on, when you call the cell phone carrier, you find out that someone else pretending to be you has visited a store and claimed to have lost your phone.  Customer service agents moved your mobile number to a new SIM card on a ne...
  • Millions of Insecure Windows XP Systems Still In Use
    Windows XP was released on 2001 replaced by Windows Vista (ugh) in 2006, and Windows 7 in 2009.  Official support from Microsoft, including security updates, ended in 2014.  It is now 16 years old.  Yet 7% of PCs worldwide are still running Windows XP.  Considering there are about 3 billion PC i...
  • Crypto-Mining Exploits On The Rise
    Fighting cyber-crime is a lot like whack-a-mole.  By the time cyber-defenders come up with countermeasures that work against one exploit, the cyber-criminals have moved on to another different and more profitable exploit.  Old malware is updated with new versions, and the new versions often slide ...
  • Dragonfly Wants To Punch Our Lights Out? Round Two
    Somebody wants to punch our lights out – literally turn off the electric power grid. Who would want to do this?  Russia?  North Korea?  Cybersecurity firm Symantec has attributed this attack to a group they have identified as the Dragonfly Group, who may have been responsible for the attack...
  • MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act to Protect Small Businesses
    At the end of September, the Senate passed the MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act for Small Business.  This is an effort to help small businesses deal with the technical aspects and costs associated with creating a cybersecurity program and protecting their digital assets from attack or compromise.  T...
  • Need a Personal Cyber Security Staff? Rubica May Be the Answer
    I was recently introduced to a personal cybersecurity service called Rubica.  If you are looking for a company that can provide you and your family or your small business with the kind of cybersecurity operations that are available to larger companies, this may be for you. A bad day for me starts w...
  • CEOs and Business Owners Targeted By Cyber-Criminals
    Are you are the owner of a business, or the CEO or other C-level employee?  You are prime target for cyber-criminals.  Specifically, your email account is a highly desirable target that can be used to impersonate you for invoicing, payment interception, or wire transfer fraud. If you think you are...
  • Weekend Update
    FBI Releases Article on Protecting Business Email Systems 05/31/2017 07:45 PM EDT (***Watch for our 4 part series on Email Account Hijacking starting Monday***) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an article on Building a Digital Defense with an Email Fortress. FBI warns that scam...
  • Top Cyber Threats for 2017
    2017 is promising to be another difficult year for cyber-defenders who are protecting company and government networks from attack.  Here are what I think will be the top attack vectors this year. Business Email Compromise CEOs and other C suite officers will increasingly be targeted for email accou...
  • Facebook Hardens Authentication
    Facebook recently announced an improvement to it’s logon system.  Login security seems to be taking a position from and center lately.  Wednesday we wrote about Yahoo’s new authentication system, and today we will move on to Facebook’s Login Approvals. Previously, Facebook users ...
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