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Cybersecurity Training Agency Breached After Phishing Attack
The SANS Institute, a company that provides cybersecurity training and certification, announced that a data breach compromised the personally identifiable data of roughly 28,000...
Hackers Are Using Legitimate Email Services for BEC Attacks
Cybercriminals are increasingly registering email addresses with legitimate services and using them in the commission of business email compromise (BEC) attacks.
A recent study of...
Windows 7 End of Life Presents Hacking Risk, FBI Warns
The FBI warned in a private industry notification published August 3 that companies and organizations still using Windows 7 are at risk.
Microsoft’s end of...
Illinois Reports Over 120K Cases of Unemployment Fraud Since March
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that state and federal officials have identified more than 120,000 cases of unemployment-related fraud and identity theft since March...
Typosquatting – Third Certainty #24
Simple spelling errors in URLs can expose you to phishing, malware, and other kinds of cyber trickery. In the latest episode of Third Certainty,...
NSA Issues Cybersecurity Advisory on Protecting Location Data
The NSA has issued a cybersecurity advisory about the use of location data on personal devices, social media accounts, mobile applications, as well as...
Twitter Hack Tied To Employee Spearphishing
With the arrest of 17-year-old hacker Graham Ivan Clark in Tampa, Florida and more than 30 charges later, we’re starting to get a better...
The Twitter Hack – Third Certainty #23
In the latest episode of Third Certainty, Adam Levin discusses how to protect your accounts and data in the wake of the recent Twitter...
Source Code from Microsoft, Adobe, Nintendo, and Others Leaked Online
A collection of source code from companies including General Electric, Disney, Microsoft, Motorola, Qualcomm, Adobe, Nintendo and Microsoft has been aggregated and posted online.
The...
Burners, Dots, and Pluses: Protecting Your Email in the Post-Privacy Age
If you find your personal email account bombarded with unwanted marketing emails, there’s a good chance your account was compromised in a breach. That...
Garmin Devices and Services Taken Offline By Ransomware Attack
Navigation and wearable device company Garmin experienced a widespread outage after a successful ransomware attack July 23.
Recent reports have confirmed that the outage was...
US Indicts Hackers For Theft of Technology, Covid-19 Research
The U.S. Justice Department has accused two Chinese hackers of conducting a massive campaign of intellectual property theft, including Covid-19 vaccine research.
In the indictment...
This Simple Hack Could Tank Your Business
Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated. Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit--malware, elaborate spear-phishing...
Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Barack Obama Hacked in Twitter Compromise
The personal Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Warren Buffett in addition to the official...
MGM Data Breach Ten Times Larger Than Initially Reported
The discovery of a database for sale on the dark web suggests the 2019 data breach of MGM Resorts was significantly larger than initially...
2020 Likely To Break Records for Breaches
2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data.
A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus...
Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic...
There is no overestimating the value of your company's domain name. Whether you work for a big brand or run a mom-and-pop dot-com, the goal...
Russian Hackers Targeting Remote Workers
A Russia-based hacking group is exploiting the current Covid-19 pandemic to target and compromise U.S. companies with multiple strains of malware, according to a...
Protecting Against Cyber Crime During the Pandemic – Third Certainty #22
Adam Levin discusses how viewers can protect their accounts and their data in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Think Ransomware Can’t Put You Out of Business?
We're not even halfway through 2020, and already it's been a record-breaking year for ransomware attacks. Barely a week goes by without reports of a new strain or variant...