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Stu Sjouwerman

Chief Executive Officer & President

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.


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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 46 Black Friday Coupon Alert

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 46
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STATE DEPT COMPUTERS HACKED, EMAIL SHUT DOWN

Associated Press just reported that the State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from ...
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New Flavor of Ransomware Is More User Friendly

It's been more than a year since the first vicious ransomware stuck up its ugly head.
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Small business thinks workers are weak cybersecurity link

The poll was conducted by Spiceworks Voice of IT on behalf of CloudEntr in September. The study collected 438 surveys from IT professionals at companies with 20 to 499 employees in ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 45 Free Pizza Delivers Malware

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 45
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SCAM of the Week: Free Pizza Delivers Malware

There is a current, active cybercrime campaign going, using the tempting lure of free pizza, researchers at Cloudmark warned. They spotted new spam emails claiming to be a campaign from ...
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Home Depot Hackers Also Steal 53 Million Email Addresses

As if it wasn't bad enough to lose 56 million credit card accounts, now Home Depot has to admit it also lost 53 million email addresses. This gives the bad guys a fabulous opportunity to ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 44 Important items in this issue. Read it.

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 44
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The Next Advanced Cybercrime Service

Here is a mock-up ad for a new real service that became available for cyber criminals recently:
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How Did Russians Hack The White House?

The White House told the press this week that its Executive Office of the President (EOP) network was hacked a few weeks ago, and pooh poohed the data breach by pointing out that it was ...
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PCI Publishes Guidance On Security Awareness Training

The Payment Card Industry Council thinks Security Awareness Training is so important that they just published a 25-page guidance paper that fully explains the why, how and what of ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 43 CryptoWall Ransomware Claims Fresh Victims

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 43
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Koler Android Ransomware Now Spreads in U.S. as Text Worm

Android phones have by far the largest market share, and thus are mobile malware target #1. There is now a new variant of the Koler malware that spreads itself via text messages and holds ...
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Ad-borne Cryptowall Ransomware Claims Fresh Victims

The phones have been ringing off the hook here at KnowBe4. Not customers of ours but people that were hit with CryptoWall V2.0, needed bitcoin urgently, did a websearch and wound up with ...
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What's -Really- The #1 Hot Security Topic?

There is an enormous amount of noise in the security space, so how do you know what people really talk about and think is the most important topic? Well, we created the Hackbusters site ...
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Survey Finds Half of Holiday Shoppers Will Avoid Hacked Stores

Huffington Post Survey: "As another holiday shopping frenzy nears, a new survey suggests that many consumers plan to avoid the growing number of retailers that have been hacked.
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 42 Ransomware Hits Admin Workstation and Kills 7 Servers

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 42
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Scam Of The Week: Ebola Phishing Grows In Volume

I have been warning here before that Ebola phishing attacks would be more and more prevalent, as a result of the mass-media spending increasing amounts of time covering this threat.
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Russian Cybercrime Rakes In $2.5 Billion These Last 12 Months

There is a Russian outfit called Group-IB. They released a report October 15th which goes into great detail on how Russian cybercrime makes its money. The picture is not pretty but very ...
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Ransomware hits admin workstation and kills 7 servers

I wanted to share a horror story with you, something that happened to somebody the day before yesterday. This is what happened in their own words:
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