It was another great BlackHat. If you could not make it, here is a roundup of things that I thought were particularly interesting from the perspective we have here at KnowBe4. It's a ...
The Pentagon divulged that its computer networks were penetrated by suspected Russian hackers using spear-phishing. The hackers got into their unclassified email network used by the Joint ...
Brian Krebs just reported on a massive $46M Cyberheist. Networking firm Ubiquiti Networks Inc. disclosed this week that cyber thieves recently stole $46.7 million using an increasingly ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #31 August 4, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Microsoft Windows 10 Upgrade Installs Ransomware Major Operating System upgrades usually cause confusion among end-users and the ...
KnowBe4 had a July sales game and the top three reps won a day at Florida's Sebring racing track. They had a great day and here are some shots by KnowBe4's Creative Director Robert La ...
Major Operating System upgrades are usually a cause of confusion among end-users and the current Windows 10 upgrade is no exception. The bad guys exploit these confusions in several ways, ...
I have been talking for years at this blog about the Chinese hacking into the U.S. for mainly espionage, using highly sophisticated social engineering and spear-phishing attacks. This ...
By Guest Blogger Brad Mathis, Senior Consultant, Information Security It is mid-2015. By now, we have all seen incoming emails claiming we have been bequeathed a huge sum of money from a ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #30 July 28, 2015 How To Get The OK To Phish Your Own Employees IT people responsible for network security talk to us all the time. Almost all of them agree that ...
We moved to a new 15,000 square feet office with expansion space for 100 KnowBe4 employees, and this week we had our logo mounted on the top of the building. This is a 30-second ...
By far the most requested feature in the KnowBe4 console was Training Campaigns. We're excited to tell you they are here now, in version 5.2 of your console. When it comes to rolling out ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #29 July 21, 2015 AshleyMadison: Second Nightmare Phishing Problem Again, we have a nightmare phishing scenario with the brand new AshleyMadison (AM) hack. A few ...
8/19/2015 UPDATE: Yesterday the full 10 Gigabyte database was released on the Internet, with all records including confidential files related to the company itself. People that registered ...
Security researcher Fedor Sinitsyn reported on the new TeslaCrypt V2.0. This family of ransomware is relatively new, it was first detected in February 2015. It's been dubbed the "curse" ...
According to the 2015 Black Hat Attendee Survey, nearly three quarters (73 percent) of top security professionals think it likely that their organizations will be hit with a major data ...
The Tech Support Scams are getting worse by the month. Here is a horror story that was just shared today. I suggest you read it, and keep alert for Red Flags like these! "My dad almost ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #28 July 14, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Internet Capacity Warning OK, so here is the latest scam, possibly fueled by the recent news that we have run out of IPv4 ...
A British hedgefund lost more than a million dollars in a social engineering attack on their Chief Financial Officer Thomas Meston, and there is an expensive court case going on because ...
Unconscionable. I would even say callous and criminal negligence, all on the current administration's watch, of the highly confidential and very private information of the people working ...
OK, so here is the latest scam of the week, possibly fueled by the recent news that we have run out of IPv4 addresses in the U.S. Employees receive an email which claims to be from the ...
