Cyber Security Articles & News

Kevin Mitnick: An interview on Trump, Russians, and blockchain with the world’s most famous hacker

Kevin Mitnick was once the world’s most wanted hacker. He broke into 40 major companies for the challenge of it, and he eventually got caught in a spectacular cat-and-mouse game. He did five years in prison, including a year in solitary confinement because the judge in his case was told that he might be able to launch nuclear weapons from a payphone.

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Yes, Google’s Security Key Is Hackable

Here is an article by Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4

Ever since Google told the world that none of its 85,000 employees had been successfully hacked (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neutralized-employee-phishing/) since they started implementing Security Keys, like Yubico’s YubiKey (https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/), I’ve been contacted by friends and the media about my thoughts.

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KnowBe4 Releases Q2 2018 Top-Clicked Phishing Report

Messages Playing into Human Psyche of Being Popular or Wanted Continue to Sail Through Security Defences

KnowBe4, provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today shared its Top 10 Global Phishing Email Subject Lines for Q2 2018. The messages in the report, which were compiled from analysing KnowBe4 user data, are based on simulated phishing tests users received or real-world emails sent to users who then reported them to their IT departments. 

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Industry Reactions to U.S. Indicting 12 Russians for DNC Hack

The U.S. last week indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers over their alleged role in a hacking operation targeting the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

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SEE LIVE (Poland): The famous hacker advises how to protect data from attacks using “social engineering”

A dozen or so years ago, "data protection" or "cybersecurity" were concepts close to mainly state and international companies and institutions - the average internet user did not care much about them. Today, when we have everything on the smartphone - information about family, health or banking data - protecting these resources is a challenge for everyone. Often, however, we focus too much on technology, and too little on ... our own behavior - as the most famous hacker in history Kevin Mitnick convinces, currently a security consultant who will be a guest of the Inside Trends conference organized by BI Polska.

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New Report Finds Global Ransomware Damage Costs Predicted to Exceed $8 Billion in 2018

Report sponsored by KnowBe4 and conducted by Cybersecurity Ventures finds ransomware to attack a business every 14 seconds by the end of 2019

Ransomware is the new normal; it’s here to stay and is growing in sophistication and frequency. Bad guys choose to hack people if they can. Organizations need to protect their infrastructure with a new security layer: a human firewall. -Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4

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Keynote Speaker Kevin Mitnick - The World’s Most Famous Hacker

Kevin is the world's most famous hacker, bestselling author, and the top cyber security speaker. Once one of the FBI's Most Wanted because he hacked into 40 major corporations just for the challenge, Kevin is now a trusted security consultant to the Fortune 500 and governments worldwide. Kevin and The Global Ghost Team™ now maintain a 100 percent successful track record of being able to penetrate the security of any system they are paid to hack into using a combination of technical exploits and social engineering.

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Six Tips for Online Security

(Translated from Hungarian using Google)

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WATCH: Kevin Mitnick’s Art of Invisibility Book Review by Cybersecurity Expert

Video:  CyberSecurity Expert, Scott Schober, reviews Kevin Mitnick's latest book entitled The Art of Invisibility

Scott Schober is a #cybersecurity and wireless technology expert, author of Hacked Again, host of 2 Minute CyberSecurity Briefing video podcast and CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems who appears regularly on Bloomberg TV, Fox Business & Fox News, CCTV America, Canadian TV News, Al Jazeera America, Arise TV as well as CNN, CBS Morning Show, MSNBC, CNBC, The Blaze, WPIX as well as local and syndicated Radio including Sirius/XM & Bloomberg Radio and NPR.

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BOOK REVIEW: Cybersecurity Classic The Art of Deception

Cybersecurity Classic The Art of Deception

The Art of Deception is a brilliant cybersecurity book written by legendary hacker Kevin Mitnick. In stunning detail, he shares how social engineering works — how he and other hackers con people into giving up passwords, account numbers, and social security numbers. Deception is how hackers acquire the keys to the kingdom. Published in 2002, it remains a cybersecurity classic. The primary point of his book? In cybersecurity, we, humans, are the weakest link.

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