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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="What is wrong with this picture?"][/caption] This picture is a screen shot from the Polish TV Channel TVP. See something that ...

Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures"][/caption] Wath out for the latest Internet craze. The bad guys are having a field day with ...

Top hacker details how to avoid cybercrime

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="(Flickr user Alan Cleaver)"][/caption] (MoneyWatch) With the National Republican Convention fast approaching at the end of August, ...

Special Scam Of The Week: Big Brand Hijacking

An existing KnowBe4 customer tweeted about a fresh scam with the hashtag #RedFlag, and sure enough it had quite a few Red Flags. The bad guys are getting quite inventive, this time ...

30 percent of corporate users are infected with malware every year

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="30% Users Infected Per Year"][/caption] According to Radicati Group, 30 percent of corporate users are infected with malware every ...

Interview on RNC Cyber Crime - Stu Sjouwerman on Tampa CBS - WTSP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dultIFSgQS0&feature;=youtu.be This week, (very very early) Monday morning I was interviewed at the local Tampa CBS affiliate WTSP. We are getting the ...

Apple social engineered - Allows access to iCloud

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Apple Tech Social Engineered"][/caption] [UPDATED August 7] Former Gizmodo reporter Mat Honan was hacked hard. He found out that an ...

More Than Half Of Top 20 Fortune 500 Firms Infected With Gameover Zeus Botnet

The Gameover Zeus botnet is now the biggest financial fraud botnet around, and it's run by a single cybercrime group out of Eastern Europe, according to new research. Brett Stone-Gross, ...

KnowBe4 Makes InfoWorld Frontpage

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="KnowBe4 InfoWorld Frontpage"][/caption] J. Peter Bruzzese, InfoWorld's Enterprise Windows columnist interviewed me yesterday about ...

CyberheistNews vol2, #34

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #33 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Olympics Scam Roundup The bad guys are at it again! Please ...

Interview with Kevin Mitnick on SMB security

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="Kevin Mitnick Interview"][/caption] Kevin Mitnick was interviewed by Spiceworks' Nicholas Tolstoshev: "When Stu Sjouwerman from ...

New Cracking Tool Released At Defcon

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Defcon Cracking Tools"][/caption] Some pretty interesting cracking tools were released this week at Defcon in Vegas. Moxie ...

Espionage Botnets

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Espionage Botnets"][/caption] Brian Krebs just blogged about something very interesting. "A security researcher who’s spent 18 months ...

My Book Cyberheist: 4-Star Review By Security Expert

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KnowBe4 Sponsors Front Row Tampa Bay

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Front Row Tampa Bay"][/caption] With the Republican National Convention quickly approaching in Tampa, tens of thousands of visitors ...

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CyberheistNews vol2, #31

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #31 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training

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CyberheistNews vol2, #29

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #29 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] 15 Social Media Scams Not just -one- Scam of the week, but a ...

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