Opening the Network to Cybercrime: The 10 Biggest Security Breaches of 2011 to Date

May 30, 2011 3:00:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_959" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Network Cybercrime"][/caption] Despite the valiant efforts of network security companies and the vigilance of IT ...

Phishing Attacks Keep Proliferating: How to Recognize Them

May 27, 2011 3:38:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_949" align="alignleft" width="237" caption="Phishing Attacks"][/caption] There is an article in eWEEK that highlights the gravity and growth of cybercrime. It ...

Phishing Your Own Employees is a Must!

May 25, 2011 3:35:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Following is an excerpt from SC Magazine: For IT Security Professionals. It highlights the importance of educating organizational employees against the tactics cybercriminals will use to ...

FCC to Help Small Business by Raising Internet Security Awareness

May 23, 2011 3:05:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_918" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="FCC Board"][/caption] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently launched an initiative to help small ...

Phishing Attacks Skyrocket 1200 Percent

May 18, 2011 4:02:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_912" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="cybercrime skyrockets"][/caption] According to a recently released Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, phishing ...

U.S. Government Escalating Efforts to Fight Cybercrime

May 16, 2011 3:05:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_903" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="U.S. Government"][/caption] If you were under the impression that all is well with your network security and that ...

Cybercrime On The Internet

May 13, 2011 3:50:52 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

BayNews 9 in Tampa Bay, Florida interviewed Margie Manning of Tampa Bay Business Journal about cybercrime on the internet and she features KnowBe4 and our Phishing Security Test! Check it ...

Common Sense Guidelines to Avoid a Cyberheist

May 11, 2011 3:02:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_884" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="cyberheists"] [/caption] Social engineering, called phishing, happens all the time. Phishing leads to cybercrimes of ...

An Important Message about Cybercrime to All Organizations

May 9, 2011 4:37:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_876" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Social Engineering"][/caption] With the advent of social media websites like Skype, Facebook and Twitter, business ...

Cybercrime: Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011 Introduced in US Senate

May 5, 2011 9:09:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It was great to read that the "Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011" was recently introduced in the US Senate. The purpose of the bill is to raise the public's security awareness, ...

Cybercriminals Abuse Free Domain Registration to Launch Phishing Attacks

May 3, 2011 3:31:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in April 2011 indicates a record number of unique domain names were used for phishing attacks in the second half of ...

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