A Holistic Look at Risk — From Practical Experiences to Opportunities
“When you get it wrong, you measure it in the number of people that die”.
Anthony Caruana | 25 Aug | Read more
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News about spear-phishing
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Healthcare lagging when it comes to infosec
As more and more health-related data moves from analogue to digital, there are new risks introduced to our healthcare.
Anthony Caruana | 25 May | Read more
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Ransomware alert: 'Pacman' scheme uses Dropbox link to gobble victims
All malware is bad, but ransomware is particularly insidious--ask any ransomware victim. That's why a new attack scheme called "Pacman" has raised alarms, because it's even nastier than usual. Think of the classic Pac-Man game's voracious yellow ball, chomping up all of your files. It takes only one click to infect a vulnerable PC, and the attack gives victims only 24 hours to pay the ransom in Bitcoins or risk losing all of the compromised data.
Tony Bradley | 04 Apr | Read more
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Symantec to CISOs: Watch for the 'mega-breach'
Symantec has declared 2013 the year of the "mega-breach," placing security pros on notice that they stand to lose big from phishing, spear-phishing and watering-hole attacks.
Antone Gonsalves | 10 Apr | Read more
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Symantec to CISOs: Watch for the 'mega-breach'
Symantec has declared 2013 the year of the "mega-breach," placing security pros on notice that they stand to lose big from phishing, spear-phishing and watering-hole attacks.
Antone Gonsalves | 09 Apr | Read more
Features about spear-phishing
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A security awareness success story
The problem with Security Awareness programs is that it is hard to prove their successes. As with all security countermeasures, success is usually that nothing happens. Ideally, success also means that there is a report of the attempted attack, however that is rarely the case. With technical countermeasures however, logs are usually maintained that allow people to point to all of the prevented attacks.
Ira Winkler, Samantha Manke | 26 Jun | Read more