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Our friends at Social-Engineer wrote a great post that we are cross-posting here, because we see the same problem happening more and more! "With the new year come new social engineering ...
This Netflix phishing campaign goes after your login, credit card, mugshot and ID! Paul Ducklin at Sophos wrote: "Think of the big security stories of recent months. Security holes like ...
Click on the Picture to download the full infographic in PDF format Looking at the whole of 2017, there were some interesting shifts on what phishing emails were clicked from quarter to ...
This week, cybersecurity firm Check Point published its regular Global Threat Index. Malware that hijacks workstations to mine cryptocoins has apparently become the most popular infection ...
Trend Micro reported that Business Email Compromise (BEC) is projected to skyrocket as attackers use more and more sophisticated social engineering tactics to trick their targets. The ...
The popularity of bitcoin is creating problems for ransomware criminals wanting to get paid in the skyrocketing cryptocurrency. "We'll see a progressive shift in 2018 towards criminal use ...
Tara Seals at InfoSecurity Magazine had a good summary of Wombat Security Technologies' annual State of the Phish research report. "The war against phishing is still on, with 76% of ...
KnowBe4 is proud to announce the introduction of a new feature, Reporting APIs. Reporting APIs enable you to customize and obtain reports by integrating with other business systems that ...
Great Place to Work is a San Francisco-based global leader on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. Through their certification programs, Great Place to Work recognizes ...
Rebecca Wynn at securitycurrent.com wrote a great article on how not to become a ransomware statistic in health care: "In 2017, six of the top ten HIPAA breaches reported to the U.S. ...
Note: I got this too and had a similar reaction last week. Security researchers say the legitimate email is training people to have bad email hygiene. Richard De Vere, a security ...
An Indiana hospital paid a ransom of $55,000 to get rid of ransomware that had infected its systems and was hindering operations last week. The infection took root last week, on Thursday, ...
In the first quarter of 2018, after 7 years of helping our customers to enable their employees to make smarter security decisions and having reached the milestone of 15,000 customers, we ...
A new version of the KillDisk disk-wiping malware has hit companies in the financial sector in Latin America, Trend Micro reported yesterday. Just like previous versions, KillDisk ...
I just found a fabulous post on Quartz. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero.” — Charlie Munger, ...
OK, here is something unusual and really scary. KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick called me with some chilling news. A white hat hacker friend of his developed a working ...
Ever heard: "If it was easy, everyone would do it" ? Creating a better security culture in your organization has a few challenges. Let's have a look at them, see how you can overcome ...
Interesting research by Enterprise Strategy Group: 63% of organizations experienced an attempted ransomware attack in 2017, with 22% reporting these incidents occurred on a weekly basis. ...