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Cleveland Medical Associates Ransomware Infection Caused 22K-Record Databreach - How To Prevent This

Cleveland Medical Associates is offering about 22,000 patients identity protection services after a ransomware attack against the practice. The practice is offering a year of protective ...
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Scam Of The Week: Phishing Moves To Smishing

Cybercriminals are increasingly trying to circumvent your spam filters and instead are targeting your users directly through their smartphone with smishing attacks, which are hard to ...
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UN Report Shows the Whole World Needs a Cybersecurity Upgrade. Oh, Really...

Joseph Steinberg at Inc. Mag wrote : "A UN report released this week shows that despite global awareness of the proliferation of cybercrime and cyber-spying, many nations - including some ...
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Russians Are Suspects in Phishing Attacks Involving U.S. Nuclear Site

A report from the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security warns of malware attacks targeting mainly nuclear power stations, and energy facilities. The attacks started May this ...
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New Dark Web Site Offers Automated Social Engineering-As-A-Service

This Site Creates Robocalls to Steal People’s Credit Card PINs A June 30, 2017 post on Motherboard revealed a V1.0 of a site that does automated social engineering as a service, and has ...
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KnowBe4 Makes It In The 18 Hottest Enterprise Startups Of 2017

Business Insider wrote: "We are half-way through 2017 and it's time to take stock of the hottest startups so far this year. For that we turned to Pitchbook, the website that tracks ...
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KnowBe4 Reports Record Q2 2017 Performance

I am happy to report that the second quarter of 2017 was well over double that of Q2 last year, sales (bookings) was 232% compared to a year ago. This marks our 17th-straight quarter of ...
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NotPetya "ransomware" Froze Business At Global Law Firm DLA Piper

Kate Fazzini and Adam Janofsky at the Wall Street Journal wrote an excellent piece about the dangers of becoming collateral in global cyber warfare. They wrote: "This week’s “Petya” ...
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[ALERT] NotPetya Is a Cyber Weapon, Not Ransomware

Yesterday morning, after monitoring this new outbreak for 24 hours, I came to the conclusion we were dealing with cyber warfare , and not ransomware . Two separate reports coming from ...
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We Are Dealing With Cyber Warfare Here

OK, after 24 hours of monitoring this new Petya ransomworm outbreak, I am calling it. This has been brewing under the surface for a few years, but now we are dealing with open cyber ...
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APWG Cybercrime Report: Phishers’ Command of Domain Name System Reaches All-Time High in 2016

Criminalization of DNS for Phishing Advanced Most Every Year Since 2012 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- The APWG's latest study has found that cybercriminals have been shifting their tactics markedly, ...
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[ALERT] Looks Like A New Worldwide Ransomware Outbreak

Motherboard reported: "A quickly-spreading, world-wide ransomware outbreak has reportedly hit targets in Spain, France, Ukraine, Russia, and other countries. This strain is deadlier than ...
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Scam Of The Week: Real Estate Wire Transfer Phishing Fraud

According to the NY Daily News, State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler was in the process of selling her apartment and buying another, when she received an email that seemed like it was ...
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Security Awareness Training Can Lower Your Cyberinsurance Premium

New-school security awareness training might even pay for itself from Day 1! How? Call your cybersecurity insurance carrier or agent and specifically ask if you get a discount on the ...
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Windows 10 Stops Ransomware Cold? Not So Fast!

Recently, Microsoft claimed that no known ransomware could penetrate the new Win10 Creators Update.
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Global Cyber Alliance: "Few U.S. Hospitals Secure Their Email Against Phishing"

Shaun Waterman at the quite useful CyberScoop site wrote: "Fewer than one-third of the largest 98 public and private hospitals in the United States secure their email against phishing and ...
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FBI: "Extortion And CEO Fraud Are The Top Online Fraud Complaints"

And victims aren't reporting ransomware attacks... Online extortion, tech support scams and phishing attacks that spoof the boss (CEO Fraud) were among the most damaging and expensive ...
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July 4th and Current Events Phishing Templates

For KnowBe4 customers, we have some new templates available in Current Events and Holiday: Three July 4th-related templates in the Holiday category Five new Current Events templates ...
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