Smishing and Carrier Impersonation

Oct 22, 2019 6:47:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

While most phishing campaigns involve email, SMS text messages are an ideal alternative for attackers, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. Text messages are brief and uniform in ...

Shipping giant Pitney Bowes hit by ransomware

Oct 21, 2019 4:26:59 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

TechCrunch reported that shipping tech giant Pitney Bowes has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems.

Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords

Oct 21, 2019 9:35:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ars Technica is on a roll lately with some very good articles! Here is another one that made me go "Yikes!"

Can An Employee's Bad Conscience Be A Vulnerability?

Oct 21, 2019 7:06:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It can be useful to remember that social engineering succeeds much better when its marks are stressed or hurried. That appears to be the case with an ongoing scam campaign that lays its ...

KnowBe4 Wins ComputingSecurity Award: Education and Training Provider of the Year

Oct 18, 2019 9:43:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We are extremely pleased to announce we won the ComputingSecurity Award for Education and Training Provider of the Year. Here is the team accepting the award.

Don’t Fall Victim to Breach Fatigue

Oct 18, 2019 7:04:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

People shouldn’t let news of data breaches dissuade them from trying to protect their information, according to security researcher Ray [REDACTED]. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Human ...

An Unusually Vile Bit of Social Engineering

Oct 18, 2019 6:59:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A woman in Wales lost £1,000 to a scammer who posed as a police officer and threatened that she would lose her children if she didn’t pay the money within an hour, Wales Online reports. ...

A Former CIA Officer Shows You How to Make Your Organization a Hard Target

Oct 17, 2019 12:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Having spent over a decade as part of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence and the Counterterrorism Mission Center, Rosa Smothers knows the ins and outs of leading cyber operations ...

Scam Of The Week: Bogus Performance Review as Phishbait

Oct 17, 2019 7:08:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New phishing attacks are imitating performance appraisals in order to steal employees’ credentials, according to IBM SecurityIntelligence. The attackers are posing as HR employees and ...

A Lawyer's Look at "Big Game Phishing"

Oct 17, 2019 6:50:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware attacks have increasingly been going after high-value data in order to extract larger ransoms from victims, according to the well-known law firm Cooley. This trend was ...

Security Awareness Training is a Key Part of an Effective Cyber Risk Resilience and Prevention Strategy

Oct 17, 2019 6:32:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Organizations investing in cyber security technology and process are expressing risk in economical terms, helping to drive a cost-effective security stance – one that includes training.

[VIDEO] KnowBe4 Quarterly Product Update Video Q3-2019

Oct 17, 2019 6:19:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Microsoft Recommends: "Top 6 Email Security Best Practices"... And One Of Them Is Phishing Simulations

Oct 17, 2019 6:11:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Girish Chander, Microsoft's Group Program Manager of Office 365 Security wrote an excellent post on their blog titled "Top 6 email security best practices to protect against phishing ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Cost of Ransomware Related Downtime Increased More Than 200 Percent, an Amount 23 Times Greater Than the Ransom Request

Oct 17, 2019 5:52:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Datto, a leading global provider of IT solutions delivered through managed service providers (MSPs), announced its fourth annual Global State of the Channel Ransomware Report. The survey ...

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Smishing and Carrier Impersonation

Shipping giant Pitney Bowes hit by ransomware

Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords

Can An Employee's Bad Conscience Be A Vulnerability?

KnowBe4 Wins ComputingSecurity Award: Education and Training Provider of the Year

Don’t Fall Victim to Breach Fatigue

An Unusually Vile Bit of Social Engineering

A Former CIA Officer Shows You How to Make Your Organization a Hard Target

Scam Of The Week: Bogus Performance Review as Phishbait

A Lawyer's Look at "Big Game Phishing"

Security Awareness Training is a Key Part of an Effective Cyber Risk Resilience and Prevention Strategy

[VIDEO] KnowBe4 Quarterly Product Update Video Q3-2019

Microsoft Recommends: "Top 6 Email Security Best Practices"... And One Of Them Is Phishing Simulations

[INFOGRAPHIC] Cost of Ransomware Related Downtime Increased More Than 200 Percent, an Amount 23 Times Greater Than the Ransom Request

North Korean Front Company Used to Compromise Mac Users

A New Attack Category is Born: You Now Need to Also Worry About Evasive Spear Phishing

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What Footballers Wives Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity

China's Criminal Hacking Spree Created A Boeing Competitor

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