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Scam Of The Week: DMV Warns Drivers About Traffic Ticket Phishing

Online reporter Doug Olenick at SC Media was the first to point to a press release from the NY State Department of Motor Vehicles warning about a phishing scam where New York drivers are ...

Did you know how the word Phishing came to be?

I found this at ComputerWorld: "The word phishing was coined around 1996 by hackers stealing America Online accounts and passwords. By analogy with the sport of angling, these Internet ...

Powerful New KnowBe4 Feature: Training Notifications Are Here!

We have a powerful new feature that you can use now. Here is the data about the training notifications and how they work. This feature is for all subscription levels that have training, ...

Vladimir Putin Approves Of Patriotic Russian Hackers

The WSJ just posted a very interesting article by Nathan Hodge confirming what we have been saying here for the last few years. Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested in St Petersburg ...

Florida Governor Rick Scott sent KnowBe4 a Congrats Letter

KnowBe4 received a very nice letter from Florida Governor Rick Scott, saying: "Dear Mr. Sjouwerman, Congratulations on KnowBe4, Inc. recently being included in the Tampa Bay Business ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #22 [Heads-Up] Cyber Insurance Does Not Pay out for Human Error

How A Fake Cybersecurity Statistic Raced Through Washington

Nextgov wrote: "It’s the kind of figure that can make your jaw drop, the kind that forces lawmakers and public officials to get off their duffs and do something, that drives home the way ...

Scam Of The Week: Tech Support Exploits WannaCry Ransomware Fears

We all know about the infamous WannaCry ransomworm which caused a worldwide 1 billion dollars in damage, targeting mainly un-patched Windows 7 machines. As expected, the bad guys are now ...

Symantec: "Email Becomes the Weapon of Choice"

Symantec's 2017 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) details how simple tactics and innovative cyber criminals led to unprecedented outcomes in global threat activity. This report ...

[Heads-Up] Cyber Insurance Does Not Pay Out For Human Error

The WanaCry ransomworm has caused insurance companies really to take notice. Customers have started to file damage claims, it is a bit early however to see the insurance industry's full ...