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April 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Spearphishing Boils Down to Basic Social Engineering

While spearphishing attacks may employ various tactics and tools, they all rely on the same underlying human weaknesses to achieve their goals, according to Asaf Cidon from Barracuda ...

April 23, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Social Engineers Earn a First

A study by nonprofit research company Jisc and the UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) found that 100 percent of spear phishing tests against universities were able to gain ...

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Florida Spearphishing: Meddle Globally, Phish Locally

Russian intelligence services sent spearphishing emails to more than 120 email accounts used by Florida election officials in November 2016, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ...

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

The Cost of Paying in a Ransomware Attack Nearly Doubles While Downtime Also Increases

The latest data from Coveware shows increases across the board in ransoms, downtime, and average cost of an attack, mostly due to the increased use of the Ryuk ransomware variant.

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

U.K. Government: "80% Of Organizations Experience Phishing Attacks"

Despite maintaining an improved security posture over last year, 2019 brings additional attacks with a higher price tag, causing the U.K. government to urge organizations to do more.

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Ohio Becomes the Third U.S. State to Adopt the NAIC’s Insurance Data Security Model Law

Ohio joins South Carolina and Michigan to create cybersecurity legislation modeled after the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law.

April 22, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Continues to be the Source of Health Data Breaches Totaling Over 1M Breached Records

The beginning of 2019 has proven that data breaches in the health industry aren’t going anywhere. And from the intel on the breaches, phishing is playing a predominant role.

April 20, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[InfoGraphic] 56 Must Know Data Breach Statistics for 2019

Varonis spent a lot of time compiling a whole bunch of data breach stats that are very good ammo for budget requests. They also created an infographic with a quick executive summary. Did ...

April 19, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

New Articles And Templates From The KnowBe4 Tech Content Team

Hi everyone, we wanted to send a quick note about the major items the Tech Content Team has added to our knowledge base and KMSAT product in the last month.

April 18, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Here are few Game of Thrones phishing scams you should know about and how to avoid them

With the Game of Thrones (GoT) Season 8 finally airing, bad guys are using a variety of social engineering tactics to trick your end-users.

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