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What to Avoid in Dropbox-Related Phishing Attack
Corporate employees familiar with Dropbox should take extra precautions to avoid becoming a victim of a phishing attack that uses the popular file-sharing service.
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Leading-Edge UTM: What C-Level Execs Need to Know
Network and boundary security are more important than ever for organizations of all sizes. A variety of security specialist firms now offer leading-edge virtual and physical devices for Unified Threat...
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Anti-Phishing in Google Chrome a Shaky Work in Progress
The anti-phishing feature, currently available in the test version of Google's Chrome, would unlikely provide the boost the browser needs to catch up with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, an expert says.
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Phishing Scams Increasingly Using Mobile Apps to Bait Victims
Phishers typically use spam email to try and lure victims, but Kaspersky says the new trend is exploiting users' love of gadgets.
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Financial Firms and Social Media Remain Top Phishing Targets
Kaspersky Labs says that nearly 30 percent of all Phishing attacks last year targeted financial institutions, second only to social networking Phishing attack campaigns, which accounted for nearly 36...
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U.S. Army Red Faced After Phishing Test Sets Off Defense Department Email Storm
A U.S. Army commander's well-intentioned plan to test how easily his staff would fall for phishing scams went farcically wrong last month after recipients believed the email was real and forwarded it...
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How to Test the Security Savvy of Your Staff
How do you know your employees retain what you teach them in company-required security awareness training? You don't -- unless you regularly test their security savvy and effectively address their...
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An Employee Clicked on a Phishing Link - Should They Be Punished?
Everyone agrees that employees who unthinkingly click on email links and attachments pose a security risk. But should they be punished for making a bad click?
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How to Stay One Step Ahead of Phishing Attacks
Protecting yourself against phishing attacks used to be relatively easy. Don't download unexpected attachments. Visit banking websites directly instead of clicking on links in an email. And look for...
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Employees Easily Tricked on Social Media Prime Phishing Attacks
Spear phishing is one of the most effective ways to break into a corporate network, and recent studies show that employees can be easily tricked on social media to provide the information needed to...
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Managed Security Service Providers Face $40M Liability Exposures
Managed security service providers get paid by enterprise customers to stop malware or other kinds of cyberattacks, but if they fail, they face what’s often a multi-million-dollar liability.
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Facebook's New Graph Search Features Create Phishing Wonderland
Facebook has announced new changes to the way Graph Search discovers information, including the fact that status updates, photos, check-ins, and comments are now included in search results. This new...
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Study Links Phishing Vulnerabilities to Personality Traits
A new report from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University has linked susceptibility to phishing scams to personality traits, noting that women may be more vulnerable to men.
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McAfee Moves to Redefine SIEM, Enterprise Security
Most security information event management systems can identify threats, but they can't remove them. All this does is put a bull's eye on a CIO's back. McAfee's new Enterprise Security Manager takes...
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Spear Phishing Poses Threat to Industrial Control Systems
Hackers don't need Stuxnet or Flame to turn off a city's lights, say security experts
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Apple is a Tempting Phishing Target for Scammers
Spam volumes took a usual seasonal drop in August, but phishing spiked, including a noticeable interest in hijacking Apple accounts.
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Social Engineering: Study Finds Americans Willingly Open Malicious Emails
In a study conducted by TNS Global for Halon, an email security service, 30 percent of those surveyed admitted they would open an email, even if they were aware that it contained a virus or was...
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Group Behind Attack on New York Times Linked to G20 Phishing Attack
Multiple groups are leveraging the upcoming G20 summit to launch Spear Phishing attacks, including the group responsible for attacking the New York Times.
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Researchers Propose Security That Adapts to Combat Malware That Morphs
Attackers launch malware that automatically alters itself to avoid detection, and they constantly create new domains where their command-and-control servers can hide, but researchers have come up with...
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Phishers Try to Fry Apple Fanboyz After Dev Site Breach
Internet con artists quickly jumped on the news of a data breach at Apple's developer website to launch a phishing campaign aimed at relieving users of their online credentials.
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