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We moved to a new 15,000 square feet office with expansion space for 100 KnowBe4 employees, and this week we had our logo mounted on the top of the building. This is a 30-second ...
By far the most requested feature in the KnowBe4 console was Training Campaigns. We're excited to tell you they are here now, in version 5.2 of your console. When it comes to rolling out ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #29 July 21, 2015 AshleyMadison: Second Nightmare Phishing Problem Again, we have a nightmare phishing scenario with the brand new AshleyMadison (AM) hack. A few ...
8/19/2015 UPDATE: Yesterday the full 10 Gigabyte database was released on the Internet, with all records including confidential files related to the company itself. People that registered ...
Security researcher Fedor Sinitsyn reported on the new TeslaCrypt V2.0. This family of ransomware is relatively new, it was first detected in February 2015. It's been dubbed the "curse" ...
According to the 2015 Black Hat Attendee Survey, nearly three quarters (73 percent) of top security professionals think it likely that their organizations will be hit with a major data ...
The Tech Support Scams are getting worse by the month. Here is a horror story that was just shared today. I suggest you read it, and keep alert for Red Flags like these! "My dad almost ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #28 July 14, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Internet Capacity Warning OK, so here is the latest scam, possibly fueled by the recent news that we have run out of IPv4 ...
A British hedgefund lost more than a million dollars in a social engineering attack on their Chief Financial Officer Thomas Meston, and there is an expensive court case going on because ...
Unconscionable. I would even say callous and criminal negligence, all on the current administration's watch, of the highly confidential and very private information of the people working ...
OK, so here is the latest scam of the week, possibly fueled by the recent news that we have run out of IPv4 addresses in the U.S. Employees receive an email which claims to be from the ...
An Eastern European cybercrime gang has started a new TorrentLocker ransomware campaign where whole websites of energy companies, government organizations and large enterprises are being ...
"Newly leaked, confidential documents have revealed details into a cyberattack aimed at Bitstamp, a company that fundamentally deals as a cryptocurrency trader, according to a report in ...
CyberheistNews Vol #5 #27 July 7, 2015 Scam Of The Week: Payment By Facebook Friend As of last Tuesday, Facebook has switched on person-to-person (P2P) payments for users in the US to ...
In a variation of the "CEO Fraud", spearphishing is getting more up close and personal. Read this story and apply the lesson learned in your own life before you lose your life savings. ...
Jim Flynn wrote: "Helping to demonstrate that every cloud has a silver lining if you look hard enough, hacking has proven to be of great benefit to the legal profession. That's because ...
Hi Stu, "We're happy with the product. Getting good feedback from users who've gone through the programme and my management is highly impressed with the quality of the information given. ...
And yes, as we predicted, there are now phishing attacks that mimic Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach notifications. The breach has expanded to millions more records. It ...
As of last Tuesday, Facebook has switched on person-to-person (P2P) payments for users in the US to "instant-message" money to their friends, using the debit cards connected to their bank ...
Bromium is a company with a new antivirus mousetrap, so it will try to make old mousetraps look, well... old. However, they do point out correctly that traditional antivirus is starting ...
