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Stu Sjouwerman

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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Largest Website in Sweden Social Engineering Scam

Feb 6, 2014 6:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
David Jacoby, Kaspersky Lab Expert wrote this blog post yesterday and it shows that employees need to be on their toes with security top of mind even when they visit the largest websites. ...
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Why Cybercrime Pays Off

Feb 5, 2014 11:20:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
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ransomware phishing warning issued by European Cybercrime Centre

Feb 5, 2014 8:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Looks like the bad guys are also targeting Europe with ransomware phishing scams.
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05

Feb 4, 2014 9:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05
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FBI: The 10 Criminal Cyber Crime Professions

Feb 3, 2014 3:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
The Center for Cyber Forensics and Information Security (CCFIS) reported in a blog: "The FBI has recently classified the different 'professional positions' they have encountered in the ...
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Social Engineering Alert: Missed Call From A Mystery Number?

Feb 3, 2014 1:59:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
TechCrunch wrote: "The people who read our site are a pretty savvy lot. You know not to accept checks from distant princes. You can spot a phisher from a mile away. But here’s one that ...
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Worst Phishing Scam Of The Week Yet: Cryptolocker

Feb 1, 2014 8:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Why Security Awareness Training? Cryptolocker, That's Why... We here at KnowBe4 have been getting a lot of system admins calling us with the request for security awareness training ...
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Major Hotel Franchise Announces Data Breach

Feb 1, 2014 6:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
White Lodging, a company that maintains hotel franchises under nationwide brands including Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton and Westin appears to have suffered a data breach that exposed credit ...
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Yahoo Email Hacked

Jan 31, 2014 9:27:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Yahoo warned yesterday that unknown attackers have attempted to access a number of Yahoo Mail accounts, and urged users to change their passwords even if they haven't been affected. Jay ...
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Feb 1st Is National Change Your Password Day

Jan 30, 2014 3:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
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INFOGRAPHI​C: The Illusion of Personal Data Security in E-Commerce

Jan 30, 2014 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Dashlane’s first quarterly Personal Data Security Roundup was released recently. The roundup takes a look at password policies of the top 100 e-commerce sites, and the results are ...
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Do You Automate Sending SMS/Text Messages For Marketing?

Jan 30, 2014 8:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
My friend Chip Cooper at digicontracts sent me this, and I think it's a good heads up for all of you. There is a common misconception that text/SMS messages are subject to the same ...
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Scam Of The Week: Funeral Notification Phishing Attack

Jan 29, 2014 4:33:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
Another one to warn your employees about. The bad guys do not hesitate to exploit the most basic fears of people; the sudden death of a loved one. The message claims to be from a funeral ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 04

Jan 28, 2014 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 04
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Arg The Cat O Nine Tails For Careless Clickers

Jan 25, 2014 11:17:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Arg! The Cat O' Nine Tails For Careless Clickers!
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SHOCKER: Point-Of-Failure Phishing Training Does Not Work

Jan 22, 2014 12:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
The Govinfosecurity site just reported on some very interesting scientific research that finds so-called "embedded training" is ineffective. Let's quickly define "embedded", they chose ...
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WSJ: Did Hackers Got Into Target With Spear-phishing

Jan 22, 2014 9:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Today (Jan 22, 2014) Wall Street Journal reporters Charles Levinson and Danny Yadron had a good summary of the current status of the Target Hack.
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What Is The Deep Web 101

Jan 21, 2014 5:29:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
Pierluigi Paganini wrote a great blog post today. The Deep Web (or Invisible Web) is all the information on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. It's HUGE. According ...
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December 2013: 1 in 164 emails infected with some malware

Jan 21, 2014 11:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Symantec's Intelligence Report for December 2013 is out. To no one's surprise the rate of infected emails is increasing dramatically last quarter, it looked like this
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 03

Jan 21, 2014 9:11:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 03
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