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Apple Defies U.S. Magistrate's Order To Unlock Shooter Suspect's iPhone

Apple this week released a statement regarding what has been an ongoing battle for months. The FBI requested that Apple unlock the encypted iPhone belonging to San Bernadino shooter Syed ...

It's Here. New Locky Ransomware Hidden In Infected Word Files

[UPDATED FEB 22, 2016] It was only a matter of time, but some miscreant finally did it. There is a new ransomware strain somewhat amateurishly called "Locky", but this is professional ...

Ransomware Roundup 2/15/2016

The bad guys have been awfully busy these last few days. Here is your ransomware roundup with the latest "new features".

The KnowBe4 Phish Alert Button Versus JSocket RAT

Since releasing its free PhishAlert button in November 2015, KnowBe4 has been receiving a steady stream of emails flagged by users as potential phishing attacks. The email threats ...

When do end-users click on phishing links?

We had a data scientist take a look at more than 4 years of aggregated clicking data and he came up with some interesting results, expressed in graphs. Here are some of the highlights:

Please vote for KnowBe4 at the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.

Here is a short summary of why we are asking for your vote: Highest growth in customers over all competitive products Most complete suite of anti-phishing tools Easy-to-use, ...

American Chamber Of Commerce Scam Is Spear-phishing Prep

You may be aware of Steven Weisman, Esq. He writes a great daily blog called Scamicide, and is a is a nationally recognized identity theft expert, experienced university lecturer, proven ...

Ransomware Criminals Infect Thousands With Weird WordPress Hack

An unexpectedly large number of WordPress websites have been mysteriously compromised and are delivering the TeslaCrypt ransomware to unwitting end-users. Antivirus is not catching this ...

World's Most Famous Hacker Raises $8 Million To Play In Billion Dollar Security Awareness Training Market

Hi Guys, this is too good to miss. Check out this brand new article in Forbes Magazine. They started out with:

FDIC Warns Banks To Beef Up Cyber Security

I found a very interesting article at the ValueWalk site about the FDIC requiring banks to improve their cyber security, they started out with:

This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts

There is an enormous amount of noise in the security space, so how do you know what people really talk about and think is the most important topic? Well, we created the Hackbusters site ...

This Week's Ransomware Roundup

1) I was going to write up all the ransomware related news and then ran across this article by Senior Editor Sara Peters at Darkreading. Saves me some time! She started out with: ...

Scam Of The Week: Your Stolen iPhone Has Been Found

Between 3 and 4 million smartphones are stolen every year. It's your modern-day purse snatching. Many people put their entire private and work lives on these devices that can cost up to ...

Alert: Stupid And Damaging New Ransomware Called 7ev3n

Larry Abrams had the scoop: "A new ransomware has been spotted called 7ev3n that encrypts your data and demands 13 bitcoins to decrypt your files. A 13 bitcoin [almost $5,000] ransom ...

CyberheistNews Vol 6 #4 Scam Of The Week: Phish With Hidden Sting

As you may have heard, KnowBe4 has released a no-charge Outlook Add-in that allows your employees to report phishing attacks to your Incident Response team with just one click. It's ...

Crelan Bank Loses 75.8 Million Dollars In CEO Fraud

The Belgian Crelan Bank was the victim of a 70 million euro (75.8M U.S.) fraud that was launched from another country. They claim (PDF) this CEO Fraud was discovered during an internal ...

CEO Fraud Costs Boeing Vendor 54 Million Dollars

Effective security awareness training for your high-risk employees is becoming a major priority. The accounting team of FACC, who design and manufacture aircraft components for Boeing and ...


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