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Email Impersonation aka CEO Fraud Remains on the Rise

With an average of 1 in 6 users receiving email-based impersonation attacks, it spells bad news for organizations.
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Vigilance, Passcodes, and PINs the Best Defense Against SIM Swaps

Attackers are using SIM swaps to take advantage of SMS-based verification. A recent string of Instagram takeovers, a crypto currency scam costing an investor over $23 million in tokens, ...
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Customer Reports: "GSuite Makes Phishing Training Unnecessarily Hard..."

Customers report to KnowBe4 that they have issues with gmail and their security awareness training program.
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$1,170 Is How Much You're Worth On The Dark Web:

The Benzinga site had a good short summary of the current price lists for stolen data on the dark web. "According to the Dark Web Market Price Index released by the independent VPN review ...
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Come See Me Speak At The Wall Street Journal Small Business Academy October 16th

Join me at the Wall Street Journal Pro’s Small Business Academy event to equip your business with the skills to manage the mounting risks of cybercrime. They are promoting this event ...
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Mobile Phishing Campaign: Homograph Characters + "Free Flights"

Kacy Zurkus at the InfoSec group had the scoop on a campaign recently reported by Farsight Security involving an internationalized domain name (IDN) "homograph-based" phishing website ...
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Healthcare Organizations are Unprepared Without Cybersecurity Insurance!

With the Healthcare industry as a primary target by cybercriminals, analytics firm FICO’s latest findings indicate Healthcare is simply not ready for the aftermath of a cyberattack.
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One in five employees share their email password with co-workers

Negligent employees remain the number one cause of data breaches at small businesses across America. So why do small businesses continue to struggle with good cyber security practices and ...
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KnowBe4 is The ONLY simulated phishing and awareness training platform that is SOC2 Type 2 certified

KnowBe4, Inc, the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, this week announced it has successfully completed a Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 ...
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Spike in Business Email Compromise

Business email compromise attacks (BEC) have spiked by 80% over the past quarter, according to a report by Mimecast. The security provider revealed that over the past three months it had ...
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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Problem: More Data Breaches Despite Increasing Security Budgets

The CyberEdge 2018 Cyberthreat Defense Threat Report shows that lack of security talent, low security awareness among employees, and too much data to analyze are the three major headaches ...
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SEO Extortion by STD

A group is attempting to extort money from a company by threatening to destroy its online reputation. CheapAir, a flight comparison website, says it received an email in which a group ...
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SAVE THE DATE FOR KB4-CON 2019!

Join KnowBe4 for the second annual KB4 Con May 8-10, 2019 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. The KB4 Con user conference is designed for CISOs, security awareness training program ...
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This is a map of KnowBe4's 20,000+ customers Worldwide

Sometimes it's just fun to use some mapping software and see the geographic picture of where your customers are. We have many organizations using KnowBe4 all over the world, but the ...
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Think Size Matters to Hackers? It Doesn’t

The largest of organizations aren’t the only ones being hit with cyberattacks. Everyone from the SMB on up is at risk and is actively a target.
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Google Warns of Govt-Backed Phishing

This latest heads-up around phishing-based warfare from a source as reputable as Google show the need to both be watchful for and responsive to phishing attacks.
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KnowBe4 Now Listed In The World's Top Security Companies - #6 of 20

Pagan Research is an online B2B Database & Business Intelligence website and they focus on delivering quality data for the US, EU and Asia regions' startups, recent fundings, and ...
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KnowBe4 Fresh Content Update & New Features August 2018

Check out the new feature updates and training content in the KnowBe4 platform for August!
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New Malicious PDFs Carry Stealthy Backdoor And Exfiltrate Data Via Email

The Turla threat group, certainly Russian-speaking and widely attributed to Russian intelligence services, is back with a new phishing technique. The threat actor is distributing emails ...
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