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Stu Sjouwerman

Founder and Executive Chairman

Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced “shower-man”) is the Founder and Executive Chairman 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.


Recent Posts

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 31 Second Generation Ransomware In The Wild

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 31

Cryptolocker Ransomware Variant Hits Synology Users: Synolocker

When your products get targeted with custom made ransomware, you know you've got it made. We're talking about NAS (network-attached storage) built by Synology in Taiwan. the malware has ...

The Internet of Things, Risks Of Hooking Up Appliances

This is a (very) short sci-fi story that looks at the cyber security risks of hooking up household appliances to the Internet. Warning - this is one grumpy man.

Security Awareness Training blocked Ransomware Infection

ComputerWorld in Australia reported on a very nice success where security awareness training prevented a major ransomware infection. They started out with: "People like to ask the ...

CryptoLocker copycat Cryptoblocker encrypts differently

Is Antivirus as Vulnerable as Any Other Product?

Joxean Koret, a security researcher from the Singapore-based Coseinc, using a "fuzzer" tool he built himself, found numerous remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in multiple antivirus ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, 30 DELL Warns Against Social Engineering

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 30

KnowBe4 is hiring people for our sales team in Tampa Bay FL

KnowBe4 will pay anyone a thousand bucks for a referral that gets us a good sales rep!

Heads-Up: Second Generation Ransomware In The Wild

Last week, Fedor Sinitisyn, blogger and security researcher for Kaspersky posted something worrisome. He reported that the Angler Exploit Kit was delivering a new second-generation type ...

DELL Warns Against Social Engineering

Dell has its own news site called Tech Page One. A few days ago they had a new article that started with: "Human errors that aid social engineers. The weakest links in computer networks ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 29 Scam Of The Week: MH17 Airplane Crash

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 29

Scam Of The Week: MH17 Airplane Crash

Almost 300 people get shot out of the air and the only thing cyber-criminals can think of is how to exploit the disaster. What else is new. Disgusting.

Phishing Scam Of The Week: "Transportation Manager"

Unscrupulous eastern European cyber mafias are preying on U.S. workers that try to make ends meet and look for a second (or third) job. This is not a new scam, but it is sticking up its ...

Cryptolocker Is Not Dead

Tyler Moffitt, Threat Team Member at Webroot wrote:

ALERT: Ransomware Infection = Official Data Breach

This is one of the rare Cyberheist NewsFlash issues that we send when we run into something important enough to alert you about right away. Please forward to your friends and colleagues.

Brokerage house Gets Hit With CryptoWall Ransomware

The brokerage house, Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., announced this week that they had suffered a data breach. May 24, 2014 they had their computer systems compromised by an unauthorized ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 28 Five Travel Scams Of The Week

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 28

Five Travel Scams Of The Week

It's summer and a lot of people are on the road, but some of your employees are always traveling for business, and often these are management-level people with access to lots of ...

KnowBe4 Is Hiring A Renewal Sales/Customer Service Rep

We are hiring a Renewal Sales/Customer Service Rep

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 27 Prepare For High-Stakes Cyber Ransom

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 27


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