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S mall and medium business owners often a ssume they're not a likely target of cybercrime. This is a dangerous mistake for to make. Cyber attacks on smaller organizations can be ...
Security cultures don’t exist within organizations because IT wills them to. With the increase in attacks, organizations need internal advocates for the necessary shift in corporate ...
The recent data breach of pre-IPO biotech firm Guardant Health shows how much impact a single successful phishing attack can have on an organization.
Microsoft Office documents containing malicious macros accounted for 45 percent of malware loaders in August 2018, according to a blog post by Cofense. These macros were used to deliver a ...
Quantum computing is a game-changer and will have a huge impact on the way we do business, safeguard data, explore space, and even predict weather events. Yet, some experts say in the not ...
An email arrives, and you think it’s from your boss. Because it has your boss’s name on it, there's a huge psychological response, and you tend do what is requested. After a cordial ...
Mr. Henry Williams is a deputy editor for The Wall Street Journal in New York, and he reported on something we just also recommended. Here is an excerpt with a link to the full article at ...
Your organization might just be making someone else money by allowing them to mine for cryptocurrency on your computers… and not even know it.
There’s a fine but clear line between ethical and unethical persuasion, says Joe Gray, a security consultant from the “Advanced Persistent Security” blog and podcast. Gray recently ...
Our friends at Bleepingcomputer had a great article written by Ionut Ilascu I think you will like: "While phishing continues to be the prevalent threat in malware-less email-based ...
Here are the latest Current Events phishes from the KnowBe4 team over the past few days, some prompted by warnings from US-CERT.
Note: We blogged about a very similar 2nd Circuit case earlier this year in CyberheistNews, the first paragraph below refers to that case.
Anytime there’s a transaction involving money, cybercriminals look for ways to hack in and intercept funds. Student Loans are the latest target.
New research shows 25% of users falling victim to impersonation fraud were so ashamed they chose not to report it. Even worse, many don’t know how to spot the scam.
KnowBe4 is observing a serious escalation of CEO Fraud. They are now requesting street addresses and personal phone numbers of employees—an attempt to contact and manipulate employees ...
BERLIN (Reuters) – Two thirds of Germany’s manufacturers have been hit by cyber-crime attacks, costing industry in Europe’s largest economy some 43 billion euros ($50 billion), according ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. It's no secret that the threat of phishing emails has been growing at an alarming rate for a number of years. Indeed, ZDNet recently ...
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How Fast Can Your Domain Admin Password Be Cracked? 19% of employees of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) share their passwords with coworkers, according to a study by Switchfast. ...
