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Negative Reviews as Strong-Arm Collection for Bogus Bills

Anyone who depends upon good public opinion can be vulnerable to orchestrated bad word-of-mouth, especially in the form of online reviews.
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RSA’s Best Social Engineering News

KnowBe4 was at RSA 2019 this year with two booths, in both the North and South Hall. The show was humongous as usual and a torrent of news was released. I was there and it was a challenge ...
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Georgia county pays a whopping $400,000 to get rid of a ransomware infection

Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, paid $400,000 to cyber-criminals this week to get rid of a ransomware infection and regain access to their IT systems. The County hired ...
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809 Million Records Exposed By Email Marketing Giant. No Bueno.

I'm suffering from Data Breach Fatigue, how about you?
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Cyber Criminals use Domino Effect Chain Attacks to Leverage One Compromised Bank to Infect the Next

New details from international security company Group-IB show how cybercriminals are no longer looking to just steal from one bank. Instead they chain their attacks to improve their ...
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60% of Organizations Have No CSO or CISO, Putting Network Security at Risk

Recent data from Check Point Security’s Cyber Talk shows organizations are massively unprepared for attacks on network, mobile, and physical security.
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Rietspoof Malware Attack Uses Messaging Apps to Distribute Ransomware

Researchers at antivirus vendor Avast have identified a new malware attack that leverages Skype, Facebook Messenger, and other messaging applications.
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Malware Blindness in the Enterprise

A growing percentage of cyberattacks are using encryption to avoid detection, according to a new report by Zscaler’s ThreatLabZ researchers. Their report, summarized by Help Net Security, ...
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Ins and Outs of Impersonation...and Kidnapping

Impersonation attacks and business email compromise (aka CEO fraud) can lead to far more dangerous consequences than monetary losses, according to Matt Devost from OODA LLC. Devost ...
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KnowBe4 Technical Content Team Produces Tons Of Cool Stuff

I thought you might want to have an update on what kinds of content the KnowBe4's Technical Content team has been producing lately. (The picture here is Katie, our Technical Content ...
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It Only Takes Minutes: Russians Go from Foothold to Privileged Access in Record Time

We think of data breaches as taking days or weeks. But with elevated access to move laterally around the network, a cybercriminal can accomplish much in just a matter of minutes.
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FINRA Warns of New Phishing Attack Targeting Brokerage Firms

The latest warning from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) puts firms on notice of yet another tailored attack seeking to gain access to firms networks.
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KnowBe4 Thrilled To Win Editor's Choice Anti-Phishing InfoSec Award 2019

“While nation-state exploitation, Cybercrime, Hacktivism, Cyber-espionage, Ransomware and malware exploits are all on the rise, KnowBe4 has won both the Editor's Choice Anti-Phishing ...
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Fast-Changing Security Landscape May Render This Year's RSA Conference the "Most Human" Edition Ever

Tony Kontzer, a technology writer who blogs for the RSA 2019 conference observed: "While mind-blowing technological innovations are being demonstrated and perspective-shifting strategies ...
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[Heads-up] 40 Percent Of Malicious URLs Found On Good Domains. YIKES!

Webroot revealed the results of their 2019 Threat Report, showing that tried-and-true attack methods are still going strong, but new threats emerge daily, and cybercrime is highly ...
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New Evil USB Cable Shows How Attacks Can Leverage Physical Hardware

The latest security research project has led to a USB cable so malicious that it can be used for just about any kind of attack.
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New Facebook Phishing Scam is So Good It Will Fool Even You

Scams seeking to harvest online credentials have long tried to replicate known logon pages. But this newly found instance is just about perfect.
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KnowBe4 Fresh Content & Feature Updates - February 2019

NEW 'TARGETED TRAINING' FILTER IN MODSTORE You can now easily browse the industry and role based training content in the KnowBe4 ModStore.
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