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A report from the FTC found that 40% of adults age 20-29 lost money to fraud, while only 18% of adults over the age of 70 did so, challenging the narrative of older adults falling victim ...
A massive survey of nearly 1,200 IT security practitioners and decision makers across 17 countries reveals that half the people who fell victim to ransomware infections last year were ...
By Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer A few weeks ago, I wrote about my thoughts regarding recent market moves by Microsoft, Wombat, PhishLine, and others. A ...
I was alerted by a customer about a really difficult scenario that’s becoming all the more frequent. While there’s probably little that can be done in terms of tuning your spam filters ...
Our friends at Bleepingcomputer wrote: "A critical vulnerability affects hundreds of thousands of email servers. A fix has been released but this flaw affects more than half of the ...
Fabian Libeau at InformationSecurityBuzz wrote: "The most interesting trend to surface in Q4 of RiskIQ’s phishing report was a 100 percent increase in phishing campaigns leveraging social ...
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SCOTTSBORO, Ala. - The information of Scottsboro City Schools employees became compromised after a phishing scam hit the payroll department. The superintendent issued a letter addressed ...
We've got four important things to cover, but we'll keep it short! 1) Save the Date for KnowBe4’s First Ever 2018 User Conference KB4-Con in Orlando, FL May 17 & 18 2) KnowBe4 Expands ...
If you want to succeed with your organization's security awareness training program, here are some of the top "faux-pas" we have seen over the years that you should be sure to avoid:
Those who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000. Alexandia Wilson at HealthLeadersMedia had some disconcerting news. "Patients trust ...
The FBI has joined the IRS in warning that W2 tax form phishing is on the rise. The US tax filing deadline is now less than a month-and-a-half away, and tax-themed phishing is trending ...
Most companies have huge gaps in their computer security defenses, and can be compromised at will by a determined hacker. The industry even has a term for it: “Assume Breach”. But it ...
Colorado’s Department of Transportation (CDOT) has suffered an infection from another variant of the same ransomware family that attacked it just days earlier. On 1 March, a variant of ...
Phishing technique aided by social engineering in the form of using social channels to friend victims and create fake events to get creds. UK university students have been conned out of ...
TORONTO, March 1, 2018 /CNW/ - Online payment fraud like phishing is a growing trend, and Canadians are worried about it. According to a new survey conducted by Interac Corp., Canadians ...
I blogged a few days ago about a method to embed a crypto-mining script in a Word doc. Turns out an ad network has done an even better job! Arstechnica wrote: "Domain-name algorithms are ...
In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages. Of those, over 53 per cent were attempts to visit a ...
Foreign hackers have invaded secure networks of various German government departments. According to German and Dutch media, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense were among the ...
Warwick Ashford, security editor at ComputerWeekly had an interesting observation after reading CyberArk's latest cyber threat report: "Organisations are failing to learn from cyber ...
