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Mike Malone and his wife found the vacation condo of their dreams in Florida. They were in touch with a real estate agent who was handling the deal when suddenly their condo purchase ...
Here at KnowBe4, we believe the greatest defense against security threats is an organization with a strong security culture – one that elevates an employee’s awareness around threats, ...
A cyberattack against Banco De Chile (BDC)—that country's largest financial institution—bricked a hair-raising 9,000 workstations and 500 servers. However, killing these machines was ...
More than 70 percent of computer users will choose password-less multi-factor authentication (MFA) over traditional usernames and passwords, according to new behavior research. The ...
Some good news finally. It seems that the bad guys do get caught sometimes. In this case, 70 cybercriminals in the U.S. and Nigeria.
There’s yet another reason to not let your employees go looking for a new job on company time: cybercriminals are now leveraging recruitment sites.
Barracuda today announced key findings from a new global research report. Here are the highlights:
Employees may be a company's greatest asset, but they also remain the greatest cyber security risk, according to a Monday report from OpenVPN.
Two celebrities committed suicide this week, and unfortunately that's going to be exploited by lowlife internet criminals in a variety of ways.
A malicious spam campaign, distributed by the Necurs botnet, is using a new attachment type that is doing a good job in bypassing your antivirus and mail filters.
This is an up-close and personal account of how my wife Rebecca and I (we hope) dodged a cybercrime bullet. You probably do not know that I am an elected official of the City of ...
This is another celebrity death which will spawn a raft of phishing and social media attacks. We recommend to inoculate your users before they make it through the filters.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup has drawn a worldwide audience. It's also attracted phishing scams using event tickets as bait. Tickets for the matches can only be purchased legitimately through ...
The ransomware plague is not letting up and rapidly getting more technically sophisticated. New strains are popping up every month, using innovative methods to spread. Worse, the ransom ...
Phishing attacks carried out via text messages that use the “Punycode” technique to make nefarious URLs look legitimate are becoming more popular, cloud security firm Zscaler says.
It’s a worrying trend that ransomware isn’t going away. Worse, it's constantly adapting to include brand new exploits/techniques and spreads in more innovative and successful ways. Today, ...
Excellent article at www.law.com about social engineering! A discussion of the threat that social engineering (aka the "human side of hacking") poses to law firms, and some tips and ...
Each week the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast looks behind the social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that make headlines and take a heavy toll on ...
