The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about using highly-emotionally charged, “controversial”, subjects in simulated phishing tests. Controversial topic examples include ...
The most often recommended piece of anti-phishing advice is for all users to “hover” over a URL link before clicking on it. It is great advice.
Like a ghost, most business email compromise (BEC) scams are able to sneak through most technical defenses and end up in end-user inboxes.
I frequently write about authentication, including PKI, multi-factor authentication (MFA), password managers, FIDO, Open Authentication, and biometrics. I have written dozens of articles ...
The number one way that hackers and malware compromise people, devices, and networks is social engineering. No one argues that anymore, but it was not always known or discussed that way. ...
Most social engineering scams search out their potential victims, often sending emails to known email addresses, sending chat messages to them or calling known phone numbers. The ...
This blog was co-written by KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist Roger A. Grimes and Chief Learning Officer John Just. Social engineering is involved in 70% to 90% of successful ...
There are many ways to be socially engineered and phished, including email, websites, social media, SMS texts, chat services, phone calls and in-person. These days, it is hard to sell ...
For years, KnowBe4 has been a long-time proponent of everyone using PHISHING-RESISTANT multi-factor authentication (MFA) whenever possible.
Fighting spear phishing attacks is the single best thing you can do to prevent breaches.
