Phishing

Hackers can use your cell phone number for a cyberattack known as a port-out scam. Here’s how they work and how you can protect yourself.

At the end of the day, negative emotions won’t help you build an effective culture of cybersecurity awareness. HR departments should make it their goal to nurture a blame-free, empowering security culture where all employees feel they are contributing to a shared goal. 

The New York Times journalist and author of “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends” shares her predictions for the future and life-saving cybersecurity tips.

We may not be proud of it, but most of us have creeped on a crush or ex online when curiosity got the best of us. Here’s how to turn it into a lesson rather than—like your therapist told you— an unhealthy waste of time.

The shift to remote work has forced companies to change how they think about their security. CISA recently published a report highlighting an increase in successful phishing attacks exploiting cybersecurity weaknesses of remote and distributed teams.

Running an effective phishing test at work can be the difference between an employee who clicks on malicious links or attachments and one who reports them. In fact, real-time phishing simulations have proven to double employee awareness retention rates, and yield a near 40% ROI, versus more traditional cybersecurity training tactics, according to a study […]

There’s nothing like that feeling of relief once you’ve finished filing your taxes, and e-filing services like TurboTax and H&R Block definitely ease the pain of getting to the finish line.  During tax season however, the IRS warns consumers to avoid common tax scams—from unscrupulous return preparers to phishing emails and websites. So when submitting […]

Sometimes it’s obvious. That message from a Nigerian prince requesting you wire $2,000? Ok, probably not going to fall for that one. If the CEO of your company asks for your credit card information via email? Something is definitely off. But often phishing is harder to spot. Phishing is a common scheme in which someone […]

It’s too dangerous for organizations of all sizes to put the issue of cybersecurity on the backburner in 2017. One study found that small businesses making $100,000 incurred a total security incident cost of $24,000 on average—nearly a quarter of annual earnings. By comparison, the cost for billion-dollar enterprises amounted to less than 0.1% of […]

We all want to find the sweetest deal on best name-brand clothes, sleek new toys, and the hottest tech gadgets on the market. But do you really know if that online shopping website is just selling you a bag of coal? According to Forbes, retailers are projecting that online fraud attempts will increase 43 percent […]

A cyber security researcher on a jet hacks into flight controls via its in-flight information system. A practical joker cracks the code for programming electronic highway road signs. An organized crime group hides drugs in an ocean shipper’s legitimate cargo and uses hackers to gain data needed to steal the cargo containers in port.   […]

Updated 10/24/2016 On Friday, October 21,  Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, AirBnb, Github, and several major websites reported outages due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DD0S). Here’s what you need to know about the attack and how to protect yourself. Wait, what exactly happened?  On the morning of October 21, several prominent websites were taken […]