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KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from December: Including New 2021 KnowBe4 Flagship Training Modules

Here are important fresh content updates to share with you that happened in the month of December.

[Heads Up] Here's Some Powerful Ammo To Grab More Of Your End-Of-Year InfoSec Budget

OK, let's sum up where we are, here at the end of December 2020. COVID has propelled IT from 2020 to 2030 in a matter of months. However, only a few of us were ready to have the large ...

How Can You Be More at Risk With MFA?

In my recent comment on the Solarwinds’ cyber attack, I made the claim that using multifactor authentication (MFA) can sometimes make you more at risk than using a simple login name and ...

Private Online Shopping Risks Affect Businesses, Too

Consumers aren’t the only ones who can be victimized by social engineering attacks while shopping online, according to Arab News. Employees who use work devices for personal shopping are ...

FireEye's Mandia on SolarWinds hack: 'This was a sniper round'

Joe Warminsky at Cyberscoop wrote: "The foreign espionage operation that breached several U.S. government agencies through SolarWinds software updates was unique in its methods and ...

Just 8% of U.K. Firms Offer Regular Security Training

A majority of UK businesses are failing to adequately train their remote working employees to spot security threats, according to new research from iomart. The cloud services company ...

Wedbush Analyst: "Cybersecurity spending will increase 20% in 2021 Due To SolarWinds."

Wedbush senior tech analyst Dan Ives says cybersecurity spending will increase by 20% in 2021 as more companies ramp up protection following the SolarWinds hack that compromised state ...

[HACK ALERT] Here Is A Whole New Way Cyber Criminals Empty Out Your Bank Account

Researchers at IBM discovered a brand new type of massive banking fraud campaign that raked in millions of dollars over the course of a few days before it was put to a stop.

Eye-Opening Password Predictions: Remote Work Will Increase Risk for Data Breaches

Ponemon's State of Password and Authentication Security Behaviors Report analyzes password and security behaviors over time with similar trends. We wanted to deep dive into the reports of ...