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Spam is forty years old, and it's still the enduring favorite of cyber criminals. What's reckoned to have been the first spam was distributed in 1978 over ARPANET. ARPANET would evolve ...
Attacks that target business email accounts continued to increase in the second quarter of 2018, accounting for 23% of incidents reported to Beazley P.L.C. clients, the insurer said ...
Like everything else in this world, data breaches are costing organizations more too.
Heed the warning found in the story of a Virginia bank that was not breached once, but twice in an 8-month period of time!
Employee testing is a necessary part of a well-executed and flexible security awareness program. For testing to be effective, however, it needs to be well thought-out, making an ...
Several state government offices in the US have received CDs by mail, infected with malware. It's a clumsy attempt, according to an alert the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis ...
Check out the new features and training content in the KnowBe4 platform for July!
Some technical security measures may seem to promise more security than they actually deliver. It's good to understand their limitations, and to make employees aware of those same ...
Whether you realize or not, your employees are a critical part of your layered defense against phishing attacks, malware, ransomware, and more. So why aren’t they concerned?
It's clear to everyone that company's brand is a valuable property. Often hundreds of millions of dollars were used to create the brand over decades. It creates instant recognition and ...
US-CERT alert sounds the alarm on Emotet, one of the most costly and destructive malware strains currently active.
Here is an article by Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4 Ever since Google told the world that none of its 85,000 employees had been successfully hacked since they ...
According to new research from Marshall University on considering the growing threat of ransomware in healthcare, organizations need to plan for the day their data become hostages.
People can’t resist the lure of free stuff. Cyber criminals know this and are always looking for ways to make a quick effortless buck. Put these two together and you have the perfect ...
The recent arrest of 21-year old software developer Colton Grubbs brings light to just how easy it is for wanna-be cybercriminals to get their hands on some pretty powerful malware tools.
MarketWatch reports that cybersecurity companies appear to be benefiting from fat IT spending budgets fueled by tax cuts and fears of hackers. A recent Morgan Stanley survey found that ...
Cybercriminals will take advantage of any situation that separates people from their money. And what better way than to purport to be a reputable hotel and take reservations?
Curiosity for one of the most aggressive and dangerous beasts in the ocean has us dedicating a week to learning about it. Should cyberattacks that put your organization at risk get equal ...
We've been reporting on the top-clicked phishing email subjects every quarter for a while now across three different categories: general emails, those related to social media, and 'in the ...
