Royal Mail Scam: Sorry, You Haven't in Fact Won that iPhone 11 Pro

Dec 19, 2019 9:42:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An SMS phishing scam is targeting people in the UK with fake notifications that appear to come from the Royal Mail postal service, The Sun reports. The messages are personalized, and they ...

Best Practices for Creating Order from Phish Reporting Chaos

Dec 18, 2019 9:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

When Greg Kras, KnowBe4’s Chief Product Officer, first rolled out our Phish Alert Button (your users can use it to report suspicious emails), he thought it would be a great way for you to ...

Financial Advisor Fined After Falling for BEC Scam

Dec 18, 2019 8:23:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) fined and temporarily suspended a financial advisor working for UBS after he was tricked into transferring $511,870 from a client’s ...

Microsoft Sees Phishing on the Rise

Dec 11, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Javvad Malik

According to Microsoft security research, the percentage of inbound emails associated with phishing on average increased in the past year. For some, this may feel like obvious news, but ...

MimeCast Warns of New Phishing Attacks in South Africa

Dec 10, 2019 1:32:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With two new alerts regarding elevated risks of phishing attacks against consumers – one from DStv, and another from the New Development Bank – South Africans are warned to take care when ...

Have Your Users Been Exposed in the 8.5 Billion Breached Records This Year?

Dec 10, 2019 9:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Data breaches are getting bigger, the bad guys are getting more cunning, and the amount of compromised data is unfortunately continuing to rise. According to RiskBased Security, breach ...

Insecure Database Exposes Millions of Private SMS Messages

Dec 3, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers discovered an unprotected TrueDialog database hosted by Microsoft Azure with diverse and business-related data from tens of millions of users.

A Transformational Rant: Why People Question the Value of Security Awareness

Nov 4, 2019 7:45:00 AM By Perry Carpenter

In my last post, I spent a bit of time discussing the “technology vs. training” debate; and based on the feedback received, I can tell that this is a debate that many of you have had to ...

What Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Can Teach Us About Phishing

Oct 23, 2019 7:30:00 AM By Perry Carpenter

One of the greatest inventions in modern history is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I feel sorry for any human who existed before the “age of the cup” because they never got to know the ...

A New Strain of Tech Support Scam in the U.K.

Oct 22, 2019 6:54:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The BBC reports a tech support scam that caused a British man, Doug Varey, to lose £4,000. The scam began when Mr. Varey saw an online ad for twelve years’ worth of computer security ...

It’s Baaaaaaaack! Emotet Trojan Rears Its Ugly Head Once Again After a 3-Month Vacation

Oct 15, 2019 6:42:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

One of the most dangerous pieces of malware to-date, this trojan-turned-botnet has come back after a brief hiatus and appears to be a part of a new spear phishing campaign targeting ...

99 Percent Of All Misconfigurations In The Public Cloud Go Unreported

Sep 28, 2019 8:22:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Charlie Osborne at ZDNet wrote: "Today's data breaches often seem to be caused not just by malware infections or external threat actors, but human error, insiders with an ax to grind, and ...

[Heads Up] What If The World's Largest Cyber Insurers Recommended Just One Security Awareness Training Platform As The Most Effective In Reducing Cyber Risk?

Sep 25, 2019 11:08:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Well, that just happened. Today, September 25th 2019, Marsh, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk adviser, announced the inaugural class of cybersecurity solutions receiving a ...

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Royal Mail Scam: Sorry, You Haven't in Fact Won that iPhone 11 Pro

Best Practices for Creating Order from Phish Reporting Chaos

Financial Advisor Fined After Falling for BEC Scam

Microsoft Sees Phishing on the Rise

MimeCast Warns of New Phishing Attacks in South Africa

Have Your Users Been Exposed in the 8.5 Billion Breached Records This Year?

Insecure Database Exposes Millions of Private SMS Messages

A Transformational Rant: Why People Question the Value of Security Awareness

What Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Can Teach Us About Phishing

A New Strain of Tech Support Scam in the U.K.

It’s Baaaaaaaack! Emotet Trojan Rears Its Ugly Head Once Again After a 3-Month Vacation

99 Percent Of All Misconfigurations In The Public Cloud Go Unreported

[Heads Up] What If The World's Largest Cyber Insurers Recommended Just One Security Awareness Training Platform As The Most Effective In Reducing Cyber Risk?

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U.S. May Face Cyberwar with Russia After Purported U.S. Attacks on Russian Power Grid

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