How a Single Email Stole $1.9 Million from Southern Oregon University
Southern Oregon University has announced that it is the latest organization to fall victim to a business email compromise (BEC) attack after fraudsters tricked the educational establishment into transferring money into a bank account under their control. According to media reports, the university fell for the scam in late April when it wired $1.9 million […]
5 Tips to Maximize Your IT Security Training
Quality security training is a costly investment. Multiple-day training sessions are usually required for significant learning topics and are almost exclusively fee-based. And the fees are not the only investment. Key staff must be taken out of the field to attend the course, resulting in opportunity costs and lost work hours. But our adversaries are […]
Report: Average Organizational, Per Capita Data Breach Costs Reach New Highs
Data breaches remain a constant concern among boards and executives. Part of the reasoning behind this anxiety is the cost of responding to a data breach. Most years, not only does the per capita cost of a record compromised in a breach go up – so, too, does the total organizational cost. For 12 years, […]
The Cloud Isn’t Magic – What You Need to Know About the Latest US Citizen Data Leak
News travels fast in the information security community, and the combination of politics, cloud and cybersecurity make for a rapidly moving headline. You’ve no doubt read about the disclosure of 198 million records by a political data analytics firm by now. This isn’t a case of malicious hacking, but of misconfiguration. These records were simply […]
20 Percent of Users Still Don’t Know about Phishing or Ransomware, Reveals Survey
Digital security threats like ransomware and phishing attacks frequently make headlines these days. One would hope this publicity translates into heightened awareness and more secure behavior online by web users. To test this theory, Wombat Security surveyed more than 2,000 working adults (1,000 in the United States and 1,000 in the United Kingdom) in early […]
