Worst Phishing Scam Of The Week Yet: Cryptolocker

Feb 1, 2014 8:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Why Security Awareness Training? Cryptolocker, That's Why... We here at KnowBe4 have been getting a lot of system admins calling us with the request for security awareness training ...

Major Hotel Franchise Announces Data Breach

Feb 1, 2014 6:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

White Lodging, a company that maintains hotel franchises under nationwide brands including Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton and Westin appears to have suffered a data breach that exposed credit ...

Yahoo Email Hacked

Jan 31, 2014 9:27:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yahoo warned yesterday that unknown attackers have attempted to access a number of Yahoo Mail accounts, and urged users to change their passwords even if they haven't been affected. Jay ...

Feb 1st Is National Change Your Password Day

Jan 30, 2014 3:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

INFOGRAPHIC: The Illusion of Personal Data Security in E-Commerce

Jan 30, 2014 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dashlane’s first quarterly Personal Data Security Roundup was released recently. The roundup takes a look at password policies of the top 100 e-commerce sites, and the results are ...

Do You Automate Sending SMS/Text Messages For Marketing?

Jan 30, 2014 8:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

My friend Chip Cooper at digicontracts sent me this, and I think it's a good heads up for all of you. There is a common misconception that text/SMS messages are subject to the same ...

Scam Of The Week: Funeral Notification Phishing Attack

Jan 29, 2014 4:33:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Another one to warn your employees about. The bad guys do not hesitate to exploit the most basic fears of people; the sudden death of a loved one. The message claims to be from a funeral ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 04

Jan 28, 2014 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 04

Arg The Cat O Nine Tails For Careless Clickers

Jan 25, 2014 11:17:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Arg! The Cat O' Nine Tails For Careless Clickers!

SHOCKER: Point-Of-Failure Phishing Training Does Not Work

Jan 22, 2014 12:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Govinfosecurity site just reported on some very interesting scientific research that finds so-called "embedded training" is ineffective. Let's quickly define "embedded", they chose ...

WSJ: Did Hackers Got Into Target With Spear-phishing

Jan 22, 2014 9:03:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today (Jan 22, 2014) Wall Street Journal reporters Charles Levinson and Danny Yadron had a good summary of the current status of the Target Hack.

What Is The Deep Web 101

Jan 21, 2014 5:29:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Pierluigi Paganini wrote a great blog post today. The Deep Web (or Invisible Web) is all the information on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. It's HUGE. According ...

December 2013: 1 in 164 emails infected with some malware

Jan 21, 2014 11:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Symantec's Intelligence Report for December 2013 is out. To no one's surprise the rate of infected emails is increasing dramatically last quarter, it looked like this

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 03

Jan 21, 2014 9:11:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 03

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02B

Jan 14, 2014 5:43:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02B

IT security more critical now than executives expected two years ago

Jan 14, 2014 3:36:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

David Braue at CSO reported on some very interesting results of the 11th Annual Information Security Trends report by CompTIA: "28 per cent of respondents said information security was a ...

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02

Jan 14, 2014 9:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02

Consider security training before high-end technology

Jan 13, 2014 4:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CompterWeekly.com's "Security Think Tank" section has an opinion piece by Mike Gilespie that's right out of the KnowBe4 playbook.

The History Of Hacking In 5 Minutes For Dummies

Jan 12, 2014 12:40:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

What do you do when you need to explain the history of hacking to a busy non-technical manager in five minutes or less? Here is an attempt to make this extremely complex subject into a ...

Target Databreach Now 110 Mil Cards - Neiman Marcus Hacked Too

Jan 12, 2014 10:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It goes from bad to worse. The initial 40 million turns out to be really 110 million. Apparently the forensics team discovered another 70 million cards exfiltrated. And then the news ...

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Worst Phishing Scam Of The Week Yet: Cryptolocker

Major Hotel Franchise Announces Data Breach

Yahoo Email Hacked

Feb 1st Is National Change Your Password Day

INFOGRAPHIC: The Illusion of Personal Data Security in E-Commerce

Do You Automate Sending SMS/Text Messages For Marketing?

Scam Of The Week: Funeral Notification Phishing Attack

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 04

Arg The Cat O Nine Tails For Careless Clickers

SHOCKER: Point-Of-Failure Phishing Training Does Not Work

WSJ: Did Hackers Got Into Target With Spear-phishing

What Is The Deep Web 101

December 2013: 1 in 164 emails infected with some malware

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 03

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02B

IT security more critical now than executives expected two years ago

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02

Consider security training before high-end technology

The History Of Hacking In 5 Minutes For Dummies

Target Databreach Now 110 Mil Cards - Neiman Marcus Hacked Too

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