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KnowBe4 Named One of the Best Cybersecurity Blogs in the UK

I’m proud to announce that KnowBe4’s blog has been selected by 4D Data Centres as one of the top cybersecurity blogs of the year. These awards acknowledge outstanding content within the ...

Identity Theft by Low-Interest Credit Card Offer

Scammers have stolen large amounts of personal and financial information from thousands of Canadians via fraudulent phone calls offering lower interest rates on credit cards, an ...

It's The Season for Tax Scams... Again

America's Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers about a surge in phishing emails, links, and phone calls during tax season, according to Toni Birdsong at McAfee. The scammers pose ...

Bogus Job Offers as Phishbait

A series of phishing campaigns are targeting companies in various industries with phony job offers using direct messages on LinkedIn, according to researchers at Proofpoint. The attacker ...

Going to RSA in San Francisco Next Week? Get your Free Book Signed by Kevin Mitnick at KnowBe4’s Booth# 4624 North

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Kevin Mitnick Demos Outlook Exchange Exploit

In a webinar last week Kevin Mitnick, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, shared a shocking demonstration of a recent Outlook Exchange exploit in which delegated access is allowed from any ...

Cyber Espionage Warning: The Most Advanced Hacking Groups Are Getting More Ambitious

Once attackers might have needed the latest zero-days to gain access to corporate networks, but now it's spear-phishing emails using social engineering tactics that are most likely to ...

The NoRelationship Attack Bypasses Office 365 Email Attachment Security

Attackers are bypassing Office 365 email attachment security by editing the relationship files that are included with Office documents, according to Yoav Nathaniel at Avanan. A ...

Phishing campaign attempts to spread a new brand of snooping malware

Danny Palmer at ZDNet had the scoop: "A cyber espionage campaign is targeting national security think tanks and academic institutions in the US in what's believed to be an intelligence ...