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[On-Demand Webinar] Forrester TEI™: Value of KnowBe4 Goes Beyond ROI

KnowBe4 recently commissioned Forrester to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, examining the potential Return on Investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by implementing the ...
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Hackers Demand $25K-$30K After Ransomware Attack Takes Down Bingham County Servers

BLACKFOOT — Bingham County officials are scrambling to rebuild parts of their computer infrastructure after a ransomware attack took down county servers on Wednesday. The Bingham County ...
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7 Urgent Reasons For Creating A Human Firewall

I was at RSA 2017 in San Francisco last week, and apart from meetings with customers, VCs and the Press, I found a large amount of relevant security news. Out of the firehose of RSA data, ...
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Google: "Office Inbox Receives 6.2X More Phishing And 4.3X More Malware Than Your Inbox At Home".

Google Research analyzed over a billion emails passing through Gmail, and the results were presented yesterday at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. Extremely interesting ...
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[Heads-Up] First-Ever Russian Malicious Mac Macro Discovered

Appleinsider reported Feb 9, 2017: "Mac malware discovered in Microsoft Word document with auto-running macro", which was the second example of malware targeting macOS users this week. ...
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Scam Of The Week: Valentine’s Day Phishing Attacks

It is time to remind your users that heartless con artists use social engineering tactics to trick people looking for love. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center warns every year that ...
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[ALERT] DynA-Crypt Ransomware Steals And Deletes Your Data

Our friend Larry Abrams at Bleepingcomputer alerted the world about a new strain of ransomware called DynA-Crypt that was put together using a malware creation kit by people that are not ...
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CRYSIS Ransomware Is Back And Uses RDP Brute Force To Attack U.S. Healthcare Orgs

Remember the CRYSIS ransomware? The attacks started up again, mostly targeting US healthcare orgs. using brute force attacks via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The number of attacks has ...
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How Hacking Became Russia’s Weapon of Choice

A study by the World Bank stated that Russia boasts more than 1 million software specialists involved in research and development. Russian illegal cyber warriors are among the most ...
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KnowBe4 Introduces New “Social Engineering Indicators” Training Method

Today, we are introducing a new training method that IT managers can use to better manage the continually increasing social engineering threats. Social Engineering Indicators (SEI) turns ...
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Fake Netflix App Is Actually Ransomware

Kaspersky warned on their blog: "People are downloading a new app, looking to get free access to Netflix accounts. What they’re actually getting is a malware strain called Netix that ...
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Careless Licking Gets A Nasty Ransomware Phishing Infection: 1,000+ Machines Down

More than 1,000 government computer systems shut down. A county in Ohio, US, has had to shut down its entire IT infrastructure due to a ransomware infection. County Auditor Mike Smith ...
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Scam Of The Week Blends CEO Fraud And W-2 Phishing

I have talked about CEO fraud here many times — e-mail attacks spoofing the boss and social engineering a high-risk employee into wiring funds to a bank account controlled by the bad ...
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Cisco: "Spam makes major comeback. Users are your last line of defense".

Whoa Nellie. Just when you thought that spam was on its way out, Cisco’s 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report shows the opposite. Spam is making a surprising comeback as a threat to your ...
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Campbell County Health Falls Victim To W-2 CEO Fraud

And another one. You have to watch it, the tax scam season is back in full swing. Full W-2 information including SSN# for more than 1,400 employees who worked over the past year at ...
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Sedgwick County Loses $566,000 Due To CEO Fraud

WICHITA, Kansas - A Georgia man has been arrested on federal charges he carried out an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County $566,000. George S. James, 48, Brookhaven, Ga., is ...
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Why You Should Be Afraid of CEO Fraud [INFOGRAPHIC]

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