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Snapchat Employee Fell For W-2 Phishing Scam

A Snapchat employee fell for a W-2 phishing scam last week, compromising the identity information of other existing and ex-employees. The FBI calls this a Business Email Compromise, also ...
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[ALERT] New Strain Of CEO Fraud: Urgent Request for W-2s

This morning, our Controller received an email from "me", stating the following: Alanna I want you to send me the list of W-2 copy of employees wage and tax statement for 2015, I need ...
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44% of ransomware victims in the UK have paid to recover their data

Danielle Correa at SC Magazine wrote: "A Bitdefender global study with respondents from the UK, the US, France, Germany, Denmark and Romania was conducted by iSense Solutions to discover ...
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Scam Of The Week - Netflix For Free

Netflix’s popularity continues to grow fast, and they recently launched their streaming service globally. Obviously that makes them a hacker target. At the moment, there are active ...
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Apple Defies U.S. Magistrate's Order To Unlock Shooter Suspect's iPhone

Apple this week released a statement regarding what has been an ongoing battle for months. The FBI requested that Apple unlock the encypted iPhone belonging to San Bernadino shooter Syed ...
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It's Here. New Locky Ransomware Hidden In Infected Word Files

[UPDATED FEB 22, 2016] It was only a matter of time, but some miscreant finally did it. There is a new ransomware strain somewhat amateurishly called "Locky", but this is professional ...
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Ransomware Roundup 2/15/2016

The bad guys have been awfully busy these last few days. Here is your ransomware roundup with the latest "new features".
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The KnowBe4 Phish Alert Button Versus JSocket RAT

Since releasing its free PhishAlert button in November 2015, KnowBe4 has been receiving a steady stream of emails flagged by users as potential phishing attacks. The email threats ...
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When do end-users click on phishing links?

We had a data scientist take a look at more than 4 years of aggregated clicking data and he came up with some interesting results, expressed in graphs. Here are some of the highlights:
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Fresh KnowBe4 2016 Datasheet with new Phish Alert button

We have just published a brand new 2016 datasheet that includes all the main features added over the last 12 months. What I'm highlighting is this exciting free option if you use Outlook ...
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Please vote for KnowBe4 at the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.

Here is a short summary of why we are asking for your vote: Highest growth in customers over all competitive products Most complete suite of anti-phishing tools Easy-to-use, ...
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American Chamber Of Commerce Scam Is Spear-phishing Prep

You may be aware of Steven Weisman, Esq. He writes a great daily blog called Scamicide, and is a is a nationally recognized identity theft expert, experienced university lecturer, proven ...
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Ransomware Criminals Infect Thousands With Weird WordPress Hack

An unexpectedly large number of WordPress websites have been mysteriously compromised and are delivering the TeslaCrypt ransomware to unwitting end-users. Antivirus is not catching this ...
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World's Most Famous Hacker Raises $8 Million To Play In Billion Dollar Security Awareness Training Market

Hi Guys, this is too good to miss. Check out this brand new article in Forbes Magazine. They started out with:
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FDIC Warns Banks To Beef Up Cyber Security

I found a very interesting article at the ValueWalk site about the FDIC requiring banks to improve their cyber security, they started out with:
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