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Knowbe4 - CyberheistNews Vol 3, #14

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing. It was to be expected. Cyber criminals now are able to scrape your followers from Twitter, and send you a Direct Message (DM) supposedly coming from ...

Security Awareness Training Controversy

The Problem With Our Security Models

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #12

Georgia Tech Researchers Try To Stop Spear-phishing

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

How Phishing Attacks Are Evolving

28 Percent of Data Breaches Lead to Fraud

Cyberwar? Time To Calm Down A Bit

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

Osterman Blogs About KnowBe4

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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 ...

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Feb SANS Monthly Awareness Video

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 ...


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