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KnowBe4 Named a January 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training Across Three Categories

KnowBe4 is excited to announce that we have been recognized as a Customers’ Choice across three categories in the January 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Security ...

KnowBe4 Adds New Language Localization Options to its Security Awareness Training and Simulated Phishing Platform

We are excited to announce the availability of KnowBe4’s new localization options for the Admin Console and Learner Experience. You can now set your default language for three ...

The DOJ Charged Two Alleged Members of North Korea’s Military Intelligence Services With a Scheme That Included Attempts to Steal $1.3 Billion Over the Past Half-Decade for Pyongyang

Two alleged members of North Korea's military intelligence services were accused of hacking banks and companies in the U.S. and several other countries. The grand total for this scheme is ...

Redirection to Zero Days

Malvertisers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the browser engine used by Safari and other iOS apps, according to Eliya Stein at Confiant. The vulnerability, which was patched earlier ...

Bogus Bug Reports as Phishbait, Scams

Some bug bounty seekers are using extortionist or fear-mongering tactics in an effort to get paid for reporting trivial flaws, according to Chester Wisniewski at Sophos. He calls them ...

Microsoft Finds 80% of Organizations Encounter an Increase in Security Threats Due to Remote Workers

Learning from last year’s shift to a remote workforce can help dictate how operations should evolve. New data from Microsoft points at the need to better secure remote workers.

Microsoft: SolarWinds attack took more than 1,000 engineers to create

You may have missed this extremely interesting bit of data that ZDNet just published. "Microsoft reckons that the huge attack on security vendors and more took the combined power of at ...

Phishing and Impersonated Brands

Microsoft is still the most impersonated brand for phishing campaigns, according to researchers at Vade Secure. The security firm spotted 30,621 unique Microsoft-related phishing URLs in ...

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A Ransomware Victim Refuses to Pay

Video game studio CD Projekt Red, makers of The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077, have disclosed a ransomware attack, WIRED reports. The attackers claimed to have stolen source code for ...