Increase in Office 365 Attacks and Data Breaches Should Be Expected as We Approach the 2019 Tax Season

Jan 16, 2019 10:20:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Experts warn of uptick in phishing attacks against businesses leveraging Office 365 as the tax season begins, tensions run high, and opportunities to trick off-guard users will be plenty.

[THIS IS NOT A DRILL] KB4 Training Template Used As Phishing In The Wild

Jan 15, 2019 3:20:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's a known fact that once your market share is big enough, the bad guys are going after you. Used to be that viruses and malware were only developed for Windows, but when Apple got to ...

Brand-New Tool: Password Exposure Test Identifies Risky Users

Jan 15, 2019 9:29:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybercriminals are constantly coming out with new ways to hack into your network and steal your organization’s confidential information. According to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Report, ...

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #3 Your Boss NEEDS to Read This WSJ Article About Our Power Grid and How the Russians Hacked it With Phishing

Jan 15, 2019 9:09:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Awareness Training is the Key to a Culture of Security

Jan 14, 2019 3:47:52 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here’s a follow-up to an earlier post of ours, with amplification of points well-worth making.

Scam Of The Week: "When Users Add Their Names to a Wall of Shame"

Jan 14, 2019 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher, found out about another insidious bad guy trick: "If you work in IT there has undoubtedly come a dark moment when you wondered to yourself ...

Your Boss NEEDS To Read This WSJ Article About Our Power Grid And How The Russians Hacked It With Phishing

Jan 13, 2019 9:20:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a Jan 10, 2019 article, the Wall Street Journal reconstructed the worst known hack into the USA's power grid revealing attacks on hundreds of small contractors.

Email Security Gap Analysis: Survey Finds Phishing Is The No. 1 Attack That Worries IT Pros Most

Jan 12, 2019 6:34:32 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There are a few companies that frequently report on so-called "email security gap analysis" numbers: Mimecast, Proofpoint and Cyren. They are all IT security companies that have email ...

Finra punishes former Schwab broker for lying about role in $800,000 CEO Fraud scam

Jan 12, 2019 10:26:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A former broker for Charles Schwab & Co.was fined $5,000 and suspended for 90 days by Finra for lying to Schwab about a CEO Fraud attack in which he wired nearly $800,000 to someone ...

New Data Suggests that Negligent Employees May Be the Reason Data Breaches are So Successful

Jan 11, 2019 5:05:26 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

When it comes to root causes of data breaches, it’s not your firewall, your endpoint protection, your antivirus, nor your patching that’s failing you; it’s your employees.

Banking Cyber Heists Celebrate Their 25th Birthday!

Jan 10, 2019 4:10:30 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the very first cyber-heist, netting one of the first cybercriminals $10 million from Citibank. The tactics have changed, but the target hasn’t.

Lowlife Scammers exploit Sick Children in Latest Ransomware Attack

Jan 10, 2019 3:37:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The outrageous attack combination of ransomware, claims to donate to charity, and even details of children’s names, diagnoses, and pictures proves there is no low cybercriminals won’t go ...

The Government may be shut down, but the bad guys are not

Jan 10, 2019 2:18:49 PM By Eric Howes

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Once again we are starting tax season, and malicious actors are spinning up phishing campaigns to exploit the myriad opportunities ...

Ohio’s New Data Security Law Seeks to Minimize the Risk of Data Breach Impacting Insurers and Their Customers

Jan 9, 2019 7:09:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Following in the footsteps of North Carolina, the new Ohio law looks to regulate the cybersecurity practices, reporting, and notifications of its insurance industry.

It Only Takes 1 Phish: “Unremarkable” Phishing Attack Results in a Breach in the European Union’s Diplomatic Communications Network

Jan 9, 2019 7:02:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A three-year-long cyber-attack led to the successful breach of the all communications between all EU member states, putting countries and their futures at risk.

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Increase in Office 365 Attacks and Data Breaches Should Be Expected as We Approach the 2019 Tax Season

[THIS IS NOT A DRILL] KB4 Training Template Used As Phishing In The Wild

Brand-New Tool: Password Exposure Test Identifies Risky Users

CyberheistNews Vol 9 #3 Your Boss NEEDS to Read This WSJ Article About Our Power Grid and How the Russians Hacked it With Phishing

Awareness Training is the Key to a Culture of Security

Scam Of The Week: "When Users Add Their Names to a Wall of Shame"

Your Boss NEEDS To Read This WSJ Article About Our Power Grid And How The Russians Hacked It With Phishing

Email Security Gap Analysis: Survey Finds Phishing Is The No. 1 Attack That Worries IT Pros Most

Finra punishes former Schwab broker for lying about role in $800,000 CEO Fraud scam

New Data Suggests that Negligent Employees May Be the Reason Data Breaches are So Successful

Banking Cyber Heists Celebrate Their 25th Birthday!

Lowlife Scammers exploit Sick Children in Latest Ransomware Attack

The Government may be shut down, but the bad guys are not

Ohio’s New Data Security Law Seeks to Minimize the Risk of Data Breach Impacting Insurers and Their Customers

It Only Takes 1 Phish: “Unremarkable” Phishing Attack Results in a Breach in the European Union’s Diplomatic Communications Network

The Dark Overlord Ransoms 9/11 Files Showing How Law Firms Can be at Risk of Data Breach

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