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More Security Awareness Training Market Perspectives

By Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer A few weeks ago, I wrote about my thoughts regarding recent market moves by Microsoft, Wombat, PhishLine, and others. A ...

[ALERT] A Really Difficult Phishing Scenario That's Very Hard To Beat

I was alerted by a customer about a really difficult scenario that’s becoming all the more frequent. While there’s probably little that can be done in terms of tuning your spam filters ...

Email Security Vulnerability Affects Half of the Internet's Servers

Our friends at Bleepingcomputer wrote: "A critical vulnerability affects hundreds of thousands of email servers. A fix has been released but this flaw affects more than half of the ...

Phishing Via Social Media Up 100 Percent

Fabian Libeau at InformationSecurityBuzz wrote: "The most interesting trend to surface in Q4 of RiskIQ’s phishing report was a 100 percent increase in phishing campaigns leveraging social ...

New Phishing Security Test - See How You Compare to Peers in Your Industry!

We've got something really cool for you: the new Phishing Security Test v3.0!

W-2 information of Scottsboro City Schools employees compromised in phishing incident

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. - The information of Scottsboro City Schools employees became compromised after a phishing scam hit the payroll department. The superintendent issued a letter addressed ...

Some Important News From KnowBe4. Please Read This Now

We've got four important things to cover, but we'll keep it short! 1) Save the Date for KnowBe4’s First Ever 2018 User Conference KB4-Con in Orlando, FL May 17 & 18 2) KnowBe4 Expands ...

[VIDEO] Avoid These 10 Common Security Awareness Training Program Fails

If you want to succeed with your organization's security awareness training program, here are some of the top "faux-pas" we have seen over the years that you should be sure to avoid:

Accenture Cyber Security Survey: 18% of Health Employees Would Sell Confidential Data

Those who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000. Alexandia Wilson at HealthLeadersMedia had some disconcerting news. "Patients trust ...

FBI Warns of Spike in W2 Phishing But Two Central Texas Employers Fall For The Scam

The FBI has joined the IRS in warning that W2 tax form phishing is on the rise. The US tax filing deadline is now less than a month-and-a-half away, and tax-themed phishing is trending ...