Healthcare Records Unavailable For Months After Ransomware Infection

Healthcare records of an Arizona clinic have not been available for months after a ransomware infection. The Desert Care clinic got infected in August, and they were not able to recover ...

January 2, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Expect Malicious Machine Learning In 2017, making social engineering more effective

Intel Security's McAfee Threat Predictions for 2017 (PDF) observes that advances in technology are essentially neutral and that developments like machine learning should be welcomed, but ...

January 2, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Has Had Another Blow-Out Fourth Quarter

Happy New Year! I'd like to thank all our customers for your support. 2016 has been fantastic. Our year-over-year sales increase was 298% for Q4 2016, with a record number of over 750 new ...

December 31, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Russian Breach US Grid? Nah, Someone Fell For Social Engineering And Enabled Macros

Breathlessly, the Washington Post reports that the Russian Grizzly Steppe malware was found within the system of a Vermont power utility. Nah, they just dodged a bullet. This time someone ...

December 30, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Russia Hacking America Started With Phishing Attacks

As one of his last actions in office, President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats spies in retaliation for Russia interfering with the U.S. election process, after intelligence agencies ...

December 29, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Disk-Killer Malware Adds Ransomware Feature And Charges $200,000+

Talk about adding insult to injury with this new KillDisk version. Here is how social engineering can cost you dearly. The Sandworm cybercrime gang has upped its game. They were initially ...

November 4, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Yes, that email is really from LinkedIn. Yes, it's really malicious.

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Several months ago threat researchers at Proofpoint made a startling discovery : the bad guys had figured out a way to turn Paypal itself ...

October 9, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

The 7 Levels Of Hackers

Eric Chabrow over at the Government Info Security blog found an interesting post by Stuart Coulson, who is a director of a hosting provider in the U.K. Coulson wrote a somewhat longish ...

January 25, 2016 Stu Sjouwerman

Crelan Bank Loses 75.8 Million Dollars In CEO Fraud

The Belgian Crelan Bank was the victim of a 70 million euro (75.8M U.S.) fraud that was launched from another country. They claim this CEO Fraud was discovered during an internal audit ...

November 19, 2013 Stu Sjouwerman

How To Create Strong, Complex Passwords to Protect Your Organization

First, some best practices: Enable phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA) whenever possible If you can, use a password manager and protect it with MFA and/or a long ...

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