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The US Navy may have put trackers in emails destined for defense counsel and news media covering a military trial involving leaks, Military Times reports. - See more at: buff.ly/2JqDmjG

Sound familiar? "The accounts payable team was sent an official-looking email from an account purporting to be the CEO. The scam worked, Gorbel was out the $82K, and the FBI was brought in." See how the FBI turned the tables. buff.ly/2ROzusY

Great article for the business lay person. A security researcher = whitehat hacker. Don't dismiss them or their report - they are tryng to help your organization! buff.ly/2PxrX1B

Why passwords still matter. Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report estimated that more than 80% of enterprise data breaches involved the use of weak or stolen passwords. buff.ly/2HxUHnh?

Survey results showed one of the most interesting and somewhat surprising findings was that surveyed defenders felt that attackers are most concerned about threat deception technology (55%) and NextGen Firewalls (NGF)/ intrusion detection system IDS (56%).buff.ly/2LiuH0x

Account takeover attacks are one of the fastest growing email security threats as hackers set their sights on Microsoft Office 365 accounts. buff.ly/2ZWHzQP

Information Services Giant Wolters Kluwer hit by ransomware attack buff.ly/2VnTpoG

Baltimore hit by ransomware attack. Mayor Bernard "Jack" Young said Wednesday that IT teams were working to recover from a devastating cyberattack the day before that had forced officials to shut down most of the city's Internet servers. buff.ly/2Vn2fTu

Security experts typically advise against paying for stolen data after ransomware attacks, but 55% of executives at small to midsize businesses say they would do exactly that. buff.ly/2PxC6ez

"Social engineering continued to be the most popular way to compromised companies, with 60% the cases resulting from a successul social engineering attack." buff.ly/2ZDyhcw

"Today's security product lack steganography technique to analyze images in real-time, so embedding malware inside an image is very powerful. "buff.ly/2L57TFe

Game of Thrones accounted for 17 percent of all infected pirated content that researchers with Kaspersky Lab tracked last year, with 20,934 users attacked – even though no new episodes were released in 2018. buff.ly/2CMbD84

Wow! A bold attack for sure considering how many of us tune in for weather updates. buff.ly/2IM1kp9

In addition to spear phishing to collection information, cyber attackers leverage email tracking to "sharpen" their attacks. buff.ly/2IKlZdi

Test your Phishing-awareness skills. How many do you know? buff.ly/2vnQi0H

Nice article outlining cybersecurity basics - "Mobile attacks are on the rise. In the third quarter of 2018, Kaspersky Labs the number of malicious mobile installation packages was up by nearly a third when compared to just the previous few months." buff.ly/2uy9Ezu

The hidden heros!

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Great article @Jfruh. Email trackers are a great way for them to collect data to plan attacks. "Targeted attacks affect fewer organizations but have a much higher success rate; the decline in infections has not matched a decline in revenue for attackers." buff.ly/2YK1h1I

25% of Phishing Emails Sneak into Office 365. Researchers analyzed 55.5 million emails and found one out of every 99 messages contains a phishing attack. buff.ly/2GgLyQz