FBI: Victims of online fraud lost $800m to scammers last year
Australians reported $11 million in losses to online fraud to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) last year, making it the third largest source of losses in the world.
Australians reported $11 million in losses to online fraud to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) last year, making it the third largest source of losses in the world.
Researchers were able to get sensitive corporate information just by looking around corporate offices in 88 percent of attempts, according to a new study.
Maria Korolov | 21 Feb | Read more
Despite being an integral aspect of many, if not most, major attacks, social engineering tactics always seem to go underappreciated by enterprise security teams. However, it's often easier to trick someone into opening an email and exploiting a vulnerability that way, or convincing an unsuspecting assistant to provide a few useful bits of information, than it is to directly attack a web application or network connection.
George V. Hulme | 23 Jan | Read more
I love the new TV show "Scorpion", which depicts extreme geniuses Walter O'Brien and his team solving high-risk crisis scenarios using nearly impossible solutions. As everyone should know, the real-life Walter O'Brien, whose high IQ and comparable achievements spawned the basis for the TV drama actually identified the brother terrorists who were behind the Boston Marathon bombing, according to CBS, Boston.
David Geer | 13 Nov | Read more
Recent high-profile data breaches have clearly spooked a lot of companies, many of which expect to face cyber threats in the coming year. And security executives are spending more time advising senior executives and other top business decision makers at their organization on security-related matters.
Bob Violino | 12 Nov | Read more
The compromise of 10s of millions of JPMorgan Chase accounts poses the greatest risk of phishing attacks on consumers and small businesses, experts say.
Antone Gonsalves | 04 Oct | Read more
Consumers in Australia and around the world have fallen for a social engineering link promising a free download of Transformers 4, 22 Jump Street or Maleficent.
Hamish Barwick | 30 Jul | Read more
E-ZPass Group, a toll collection program consisting of 25 agencies in 15 states, has issued a warning to customers concerning a Phishing scam that is posing as a collection notice.
Steve Ragan | 15 Jul | Read more
I just returned from Brazil where the anticipation around the 2014 FIFA World Cup was astounding. Even though Brazil has won the Word Cup several times, this is the first year they've hosted since 1950. As with many countries where soccer ("football") inspires nationalistic pride, promotes escapism or more simply provides the zenith of sports entertainment, most Brazilians have an insatiable hunger. The media, event sponsors and retailers are more than happy to overindulge their appetites. From clothing and restaurants to television and Internet – the World Cup is everywhere.
Brian Contos | 11 Jun | Read more
The Syrian Electronic Army has social engineered email accounts maintained by White House Staffers, in addition to the Twitter feed maintained by Thompson Reuters
Steve Ragan | 30 Jul | Read more
Zero-day attacks, outdated vendor patches, malware toolkits spewing out new variants in their thousands, new threat vectors from unprotected and unmanaged mobile devices.
David Braue | 18 Jun | Read more
Whether it is on the phone, online or in person, here are ten lies hackers, phishers and social engineers will tell you to get what they want
Joan Goodchild | 19 Mar | Read more
Hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with social engineering tactics to try and infiltrate banks during 2013, warns Gartner.
Hamish Barwick | 25 Feb | Read more
Our team at Nominum recently looked at the biggest threats to fixed networks at the DNS layer. Why the DNS layer? Because it is ubiquitous -- every network runs on it -- and it is the best option for protecting critical infrastructure.
Craig Sprosts, vice president of platforms and applications at Nominum | 22 Feb | Read more
New types of mobile malware make headlines every day, but what are the most prevalent threats out there? The team at Nominum decided to find out by analyzing Domain Name System (DNS) data of approximately half a million users from various countries.
Craig Sprosts, VP, platform and applications, Nominum | 01 Nov | Read more