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I frequently get variations of the following question: "I met with the CISO yesterday to discuss Awareness Training. He asked if KnowBe4's CEO would comment on the value of mandatory ...
Oh my. Bad guys have come up with a sinister new strain of blackmail/sextortion. Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, the bad guys sink lower. Eric Howes, KnowBe4's Principal ...
Motherboard reported: "It appears that LockerGoga, the same ransomware that hit aluminum manufacturing giant Norsk Hydro this week, also infected American chemicals companies Hexion and ...
Knowbe4's very own Chief Evangelist Strategy Officer Perry Carpenter has written a brand new book! I recommend you pre-order at Amazon, here is the blurb from the new page promoting the ...
Schools like MIT and the University of Hawaii are the focus of Chinese hackers looking for research hubs or field experts at universities tied to Navy programs.
The financial sector has long been a target of cyber thieves. But despite their robust security postures, they continue to be the focus of some of the most innovative attack campaigns.
The U.K.’s Police Federation has confirmed it has been hit by a cyberattack. The union-like organization, representing 119,000 police officers across the 43 forces in England and Wales, ...
Microsoft’s security team is uniquely positioned to analyze trends in cyber security threats. Their frequent Security Intelligence Reports (SIR) are an excellent indicator of these ...
Business email compromises (BEC) accounted for 24% of the overall number of incidents reported to Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services in 2018, compared to 13% in 2017, according to a ...
Four congressmen have written to the FBI to request an investigation into social media accounts that are impersonating veterans’ organizations in order to spread fake news, according to ...
Scammers are shifting to SMS to carry out business email compromise (BEC) attacks, since text messaging offers less visibility to the victim and more flexibility to the attacker, says ...
SINGAPORE Straits Times reported that e-mail log-in information of employees in several government agencies and educational institutions, as well as details of more than 19,000 ...
A new phishing campaign targeting Instagram users is using fake copyright infringement notices to steal user credentials.
Cisco’s CISO Benchmark Report 2019 focuses on the need for security collaboration between internal teams and the inclusion of users as part of an effective cybersecurity program.
Preying on a victim’s fear of having “private” browsing details leaked sits at the center of these well-crafted attacks that leverage stolen or harvested passwords to establish ...
Global spending on security hardware, software and services will top $103 billion in 2019, up 9.4 percent from 2018, with large enterprises spending the most, according to IDC data.
Two defense contractors and a university lost approximately $170,000 from business email compromise (BEC) scams last year, according to an FBI advisory obtained by CyberScoop. The ...
New research from ISACA and Terranova Security found that just 12% of security, assurance, risk and governance professionals are confident in their ability to assess the effectiveness of ...
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlights how vulnerable the healthcare sector is to phishing attacks, according to Jessica Davis at Health ...
A new phishing campaign is spreading malware through emails that claim to have Bitcoin investment updates, according to My Online Security. The emails direct the victim to download an ...
