FBI: Extortion e-mail, tech support scam-bags turning up the heat

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Network World Security Alert Jun 03, 2016 FBI: Extortion e-mail, tech support scam-bags turning up the heat Not that summer time has anything to do with it but the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned that e-mail extortion campaigns and the tedious tech support scams have heated up in recent weeks. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Feeling jammed? Not like this I bet • Triggered NetFlow — A Trick of the Trade • People are more likely to share their passwords when offered chocolate • Code red: Health IT must fix its security crisis • Tricks that ransomware uses to fool you • How millennial tech grads should tailor their resumes • Mysterious malware targets industrial control systems, borrows Stuxnet techniques • SS8 makes enterprise version of traffic-analysis platform designed for intelligence agencies • How to embrace the benefits of shadow IT White Paper: Navisite 7 Steps to Developing a Cloud Security Plan Security concerns are top-of-mind for IT executives in light of highly publicized data breaches at a wide range of leading enterprises and organizations. Read More ▶ Feeling jammed? Not like this I bet Read More ▶ Triggered NetFlow — A Trick of the Trade A deployment methodology for profiling difficult endpoints designed to enable NetFlow when needed, and disable when not. Read More ▶ People are more likely to share their passwords when offered chocolate A shift to social engineering from traditional cyberattacks might be on the horizon. Rewards could improve hacker success rates, says a study. Read More ▶ Code red: Health IT must fix its security crisis Poor understanding of risk leaves health providers vulnerable to attack, as malicious hackers threaten to wreak havoc Read More ▶ Tricks that ransomware uses to fool you Cyphort has examined different variants of ransomware to help users get an idea of what might be coming down the Internet pipeline. So keep an eye out for these characteristics before your network is taken hostage. Read More ▶ How millennial tech grads should tailor their resumes If you've just graduated from college and are looking to land a job in IT, here are four emerging trends you'll want to highlight for prospective employers. Read More ▶ Mysterious malware targets industrial control systems, borrows Stuxnet techniques Researchers have found a malware program that was designed to manipulate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to hide the real readings from industrial processes. Read More ▶ SS8 makes enterprise version of traffic-analysis platform designed for intelligence agencies SS8 built its network traffic-inspection and analysis platform as a tool for intelligence agencies to discover communications among criminals and terrorists but now has scaled it back for enterprises to stop data breaches. Read More ▶ How to embrace the benefits of shadow IT By making shadow IT a bad word, CIOs are ignoring the benefits of what are business-aligned systems and missing an opportunity to build a cohesive strategy and governance system that includes all the technology systems in an enterprise. Here's how to better identify, manage and take advantage of business-procured IT. Read More ▶ White Paper: Anomali Anomali Enterprise: An Operational Model for Breach Analytics and Intelligence Shift to a single unifying methodology and model to slow the growing number data breaches. Learn about a new model that focuses on prioritization and relevance for both security operations and threat analysts. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS 10 things we love about the new Firefox browser 10 cool connected car features Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Review: The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop is nearly perfect 2. Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2016 so far 3. You've been warned: FCC emphasizes that users of authorized wireless gear must obey rules 4. Tor Browser 6.0: Ditches SHA-1 support, uses DuckDuckGo for default search results 5. Startup Nervana joins Google in building hardware tailored for neural networks 6. 19 free cloud storage options 7. Father's Day 2016 gift ideas for the discerning geek techie 8. MacGyver IT: 19 more tools for IT heroes 9. FBI raids home of researcher who reported unsecured patient data on a public server 10. The shocking truth of how you'll be tracked online and why

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