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[ALERT] Aaron Hernandez Death Phishing Scams

Low-life scum is exploiting the deaths of famous people, such as the suicide yesterday of former N.E. Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.
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UK Cybersecurity Report: "Ransomware Is Urgent Issue"

Today, the UK Government issued a comprehensive report called: "Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2017" and covered the skyrocketing ransomware infections. The report highlighted: "The ...
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The three ‘B’s’ of cybersecurity for small businesses

I just found a great article by Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance; ...
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Scam Of The Week: It's Not A WhatsApp Voice Mail! 

You probably know that the Eastern European cyber mafia does their beta testing in the U.K., before they "export" their criminal campaigns to America. Here is a heads-up of a social ...
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Why Cerber Is The New King Of Ransomware

During 2016, ransomware exploded. It clearly became the biggest menace on the net, using phishing as it's No.1 infection vector. Hundreds of ransomware strains competed for market ...
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Inside the Tech Support Scam Ecosystem

Dennis Fisher at OnThe Wire reported on some fascinating research by three PhD candidates at Stony Brook University. He wrote: "Fake tech support schemes have been a scourge on the ...
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First Quarter 2017 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects [INFOGRAPHIC]

KnowBe4 customers run millions of phishing tests per year, and we report frequently on the top-clicked phishing topics so that our customers know what the highest-risk phishing templates ...
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[ALERT] You Want To Fix This MS-Word 0-day Threat Today

Monday night, researchers at Proofpoint sounded the alarm about a critical 0-day threat known as CVE-2017-0199 in Microsoft Word that allowed booby-trapped Dridex phishing attacks be sent ...
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KnowBe4 March And April Feature Updates

Here is a quick update to show existing customers and people who have not subscribed yet which new features have been added to the KnowBe4 console these last few months, with more ...
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Scammers Phishing for financial credentials on Twitter

Steve Ragan at CSO wrote: "Scammers are using Twitter as a vehicle to target people looking for customer support or asking general questions. They interject themselves into legitimate ...
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Cybersecurity IQ: Americans Have Trouble Recognizing Phishing Attacks

A new Pew Research Center survey titled "What the Public Knows about Cybersecurity." tallied responses from 1,055 adults last year about their understanding of concepts important to ...
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Hacking Compromised Brazilian Bank Top To Bottom

Now here is an IT hacking horror story for you! Kaspersky's blog tells the tale of a bank in Brasil who lost their full online presense and had all of its 36 domains, corporate email and ...
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Which phishing emails fooled the most people? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Kevin Mitnick, our Chief Hacking Officer forwarded this great poster to me he found on Twitter today: "Which phishing emails fooled the most people?" Share it with your users!
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KnowBe4 Is TampaBay's No.1 Midsize Best Place To Work 2017

I did not get much sleep last night. Too excited. Donna Winchester, Times Correspondent sent me an email yesterday that today at 5am the story would go live. What story?Where KnowBe4 ...
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KnowBe4 Gets Top Award At InfoSecWorld Conference

Drum roll!!! We were given some great news last night and informed that we were honored with a top award from Black Book at the InfoSecWorld Conference in Orlando, FL. One of the nice ...
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KnowBe4 Reports Record Q1 2017 Performance

Friday March 31, 2017 was the best day of my professional career. A "million-dollar day", highest-ever month and highest-ever quarter. A massive thank you to all our existing and new ...
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New Cerber Ransomware Starts Evading Machine Learning

A new version of the Cerber ransomware family has adopted new techniques to make itself harder to detect by endpoint security software that uses machine learning for detection. It is now ...
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