Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced “shower-man”) is the founder and CEO of KnowBe4, Inc., which hosts the world’s most popular integrated security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, with over 54,000 organization customers and more than 50 million users. A serial entrepreneur and data security expert with 30 years in the IT industry, Stu was the co-founder of Inc. 500 company Sunbelt Software, a multiple award-winning anti-malware software company that was acquired in 2010.
One thing that is driving mainstream recognition of ransomware is the move by the Dridex banking Trojan gang into ransomware with their Locky strain. They have taken over from CryptoWall, ...
It helps to know how to spell when you try to rob a billion from a dirt poor country. A spelling mistake thwarted hackers in stealing a $1 billion dollars from the Bangladesh Bank, and ...
There is a new strain of ransomware called Cerber that takes creepiness to the next level. It drops three files on the victim's desktop named "# DECRYPT MY FILES #." These files contain ...
OK, heads up! This tax season there is a widespread new scam that specifically targets your HR and Accounting professionals. They get an urgent email from "the CEO" who asks them for all ...
A phishing incident has compromised the personal information of 11,000 Pennsylvania Main Line Health employees. Officials said the incident occurred on Feb. 16 when an employee fell for a ...
CyberheistNews Vol Vol 6 #9 How To Suck At Information Security – A Cheat Sheet Lenny Zeltser is a business and tech leader with extensive experience in Infosec. His areas of expertise ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...
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:
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 ...
