GameStop Confirms Six Months During Which Customer Information Was At Risk
Earlier this year, it was suspected that a breach occurred at the video game retailer GameStop. At that point, it was suspected...
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Recent GAO Report Finds ID Theft Services are Great, but are Limited
A recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report documented that while there are benefits, the various...
Combine Tools With Training To Take the Most Proactive Approach to Thwarting Phishing
Google is a huge collector of data, as most of us know. It has so much information that it is incredibly attractive to hackers...
SSL Certificates No Longer Guarantees Safe Browsing
That advice about looking for a valid digital certificate as an indicator that a website is not malicious just got debunked for...
Summer Is For Fishing And Not Phishing
Summer has arrived all around the northern hemisphere. Many of us prefer to jump up and head outside to enjoy the spoils of the...
A Wave of Patches Released by Microsoft and Adobe This Week
This week, Microsoft released a plethora of patches for its various operating systems and other related software. One of the...
QakBot Trojan Revised to Lock You Out
Sometimes the old dogs just learn new tricks. In the case of the QakBot trojan, that is exactly what has happened. It’s been...
For Your Convenience Malware Comes Pre-Installed on Your Brand New Device
Earlier this year, Check Point researchers discovered something unique in mobile malware. It found 36 Android devices from a...
These Phishers Aren't Even Making an Effort
Help Desk and Outlook are joining forces in a recent phishing scam. Ok, well they aren’t really, but phishers are using both in a...
Chinese Adware Annoys and Can Take Over Your Computer
We haven’t heard too much about annoying popup ads or malicious adware lately, but there is a story this week to whet our...
Q1 Data Breach Numbers Are Out and Are Surprisingly Not Surprising
The numbers and analyses are coming out for cybersecurity incidents in Q1 of 2017 and they really aren’t so surprising. In fact...
We Are Still Not Great at Spotting Phishing Emails
The United States reports more phishing scams than any other country. Per the Anti-Phishing Working Group, in Q1 of 2016, there...