Georgia Tech Researchers Try To Stop Spear-phishing

Mar 18, 2013 7:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Georgia Tech correctly identified that the most challenging threat facing corporate networks today is “spear phishing.” “Spear phishing is the most popular way to get into a corporate ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #11

Mar 11, 2013 9:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

How Phishing Attacks Are Evolving

Mar 7, 2013 3:38:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

28 Percent of Data Breaches Lead to Fraud

Mar 7, 2013 2:29:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyberwar? Time To Calm Down A Bit

Mar 6, 2013 9:46:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The media has a field day with this whole China / Mandiant report, but there are a few issues being confused here. It's all good and well to make the public aware of the fact that foreign ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 09

Feb 25, 2013 7:32:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Osterman Blogs About KnowBe4

Feb 25, 2013 5:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Highly regarded IT Analyst Mike Osterman wrote: "Most will agree that despite the enormous amounts spent on secure Web gateways, anti-virus software, cloud-based malware filtering and the ...

Scam Of The Week - Target: IT

Feb 23, 2013 5:25:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This week, it's -you- specifically being targeted with a phishing attack. The bad guys know very well that the most powerful weapons are administrator's credentials, as those really are ...

PDF 0-day Vulnerability Being Exploited In The Wild

Feb 21, 2013 2:28:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week, Adobe warned customers that a few new exploits that target Acrobat Reader were being exploited in the wild. Keep an eye out for patches that are expected soon. The exploits are ...

Security firms slow to react to spear phishing like that used in China hack

Feb 21, 2013 1:54:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antone Gonsales at the CSO site hits the nail on the head: "Email security vendors have failed to do enough to protect customers against advanced cyberattacks like the one recently linked ...

Which Antivirus Has The Best Phishing Protection? Surprise!

Feb 19, 2013 6:16:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I ran across some very interesting research recently done by NSS Labs. They compared twelve of the most popular antivirus engines, they call them endpoint protection products (EPP) and ...

New CyberSec Executive Order IT Impact Zero

Feb 16, 2013 5:32:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last Tuesday, the White House issued the long awaited CyberSec Executive Order, which makes an attempt to outline policies that will protect US organizations against cyber-attacks and ...

Cyber Bullying

Feb 14, 2013 5:07:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 is a market leader in security awareness training for employees in an office environment. However, when we asked people who finished the training what they thought, they said they ...

CyberheistNews vol 3,

Feb 11, 2013 9:11:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #7

Feb SANS Monthly Awareness Video

Feb 6, 2013 2:55:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may be familiar with our friends at SANS. For their 'Securing The Human' team, every month is security awareness month, same as here at KnowBe4. On the first of every month they post ...

IT security equals job security

Feb 6, 2013 2:23:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Did you ever expect that our IT networks would be a worldwide battleground for highly sophisticated cyber warfare? IT security certainly will provide job security for the next decade or ...

CyberheistNews vol 3, #6

Feb 4, 2013 7:29:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

TODAY SPECIAL Kevin Mitnick On Home Shopping Network

Feb 2, 2013 1:10:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Febuary 2, 2013 - Today, Kevin Mitnick is part of Home Shopping Network's TODAY SPECIAL! Kevin partnered with KnowBe4 to create security awareness training for employees in an enterprise ...

DHS disable your Plug And Play

Jan 29, 2013 7:46:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, Jan 29 2013, the Department of Homeland Security advises computer users to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), after researchers at Rapid7 alerted DHS that hackers could ...

Most Common Motivations Behind DDoS Attacks

Jan 29, 2013 5:18:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Arbor networks Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) shows that ideology is the primary attack motivation, followed by online gaming and vandalism. Click on the graphic to go to ...

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