[Heads-up] Bad Guys Are Now Taking Over Email Inboxes Without Phishing Attacks

Nov 24, 2018 8:43:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I found a great article in SecurityWeek by Alastair Paterson, the CEO of Digital Shadows. Could not have said it better myself, and he alerted everyone about an attack vector that was ...

75% of users reuse passwords across different accounts – this is up from 56% in 2014!

Nov 23, 2018 12:00:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We’ve always known users are the weakest link in your security chain, but new report data from SailPoint shows just how bad users are behaving in 2018 – and how it affects security.

KnowBe4 Wins UK Security Excellence Awards!

Nov 22, 2018 2:05:18 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Computing's Security Excellence Awards celebrate the achievements of the IT industry's leading security companies, solutions, products and personalities - those are keeping every other ...

Do Your Emails Make the Naughty or Nice List?

Nov 21, 2018 3:31:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Black Friday is just as popular with hackers as it is with shoppers. So is Cyber Monday, for that matter.

More Details On New Bill That Poses Jail Time and Fines for Senior Executives of Victim Organizations

Nov 21, 2018 1:50:10 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We covered this in the recent CyberheistNews, but now there is more detail.

CEOs are Prime Targets for Social Engineering Attacks

Nov 20, 2018 4:46:20 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CEOs can be the weakest link in an organization’s security posture, according to Mimecast’s Matthew Gardiner. Carole Theriault talked to Gardiner last week on The CyberWire’s Hacking ...

Dutch audit finds Microsoft Office leaks confidential data

Nov 20, 2018 11:32:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The diagnostics Microsoft Office collects from users should be a source of concern for any government CISO, according to a DPIA audit ComputerWeekly reported: "A report commissioned by ...

MSPs: Ransomware Downtime Costs SMBs 10x the Ransom

Nov 20, 2018 10:47:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With 79% of MSPs indicating their clients have experienced ransomware attacks, every organization needs to take the financial impact of ransomware seriously.

"Quebec is an embarrassment": Province urged to do more on cybersecurity

Nov 19, 2018 4:08:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

MONTREAL — On Sept. 10, municipal employees in a region between Montreal and Quebec City arrived at work to discover a threatening message on their computers notifying them they were ...

IRS Issues Urgent Warning On Tax Transcript Scam

Nov 19, 2018 2:55:17 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning about a new “tax transcript” scam. In the scam, taxpayers are tricked into opening emails that look like they are from the IRS—but they ...

Expert Insights Recognizes KnowBe4 as a ‘2018 Market Leader’ for Security Awareness Training

Nov 19, 2018 1:26:08 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 has been ranked the top vendor in the category of Security Awareness Training by Expert Insights

Phishing Accounts for 50% of All Fraud Attacks [InfoGraphic]

Nov 19, 2018 10:39:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to the latest research from RSA, attacks intent on committing financial fraud most frequently begin with tried and true phishing.

CyberheistNews Vol 8 #46 [Heads-Up] New Hybrid Ransomware Strain Evades Detection by All but One Antivirus Engine

Nov 19, 2018 9:50:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now here is something new: Russian Banks Targeted by Sophisticated Phishing Emails

Nov 19, 2018 9:45:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This does not happen too often, and these attackers must be outside of Russia. If hackers inside Russia attack their own country, the FSB is on their doorstep with a SWAT team in no time.

How better training, cybersecurity upgrades made one credit union safer

Nov 18, 2018 9:58:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

America’s Christian Credit Union, Glendora, Calif., reduced its cybersecurity threat plane by 90 percent by upgrading both its hardware and its resistance to phishing – and earned a ...

Russian APT Comes Back To Life With New Us Spear-Phishing Campaign

Nov 18, 2018 9:02:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A Russian state-sponsored cyber-espionage group has come back to life after a one-year period of inactivity with a relative large spear-phishing campaign that has targeted both the US ...

Hacked Law Firm Can't Claw Back $580,000 From Bank That Completed Transfer

Nov 17, 2018 2:50:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Max Mitchell at Law.com has an interesting and rather painful story. Don't let this happen to your organization.

KnowBe4 Modstore Release: Captain Awareness Has Arrived And Is Here To Help

Nov 17, 2018 9:49:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The KnowBe4 Courseware Team is excited to announce the release of the first 6 episodes in a new comic book style animated series: Captain Awareness. These first two-minute modules cover ...

KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Training

Nov 16, 2018 2:07:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training for the second year in a row. ...

Watch Out Banks: New PDF Attack Avoids Antivirus Detection

Nov 16, 2018 11:49:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest attack from the Cobalt Gang targeting banking institutions used specific tactics to ensure AV doesn’t detect the malicious PDF at the heart of the attack.

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