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Symantec Covers Top Social Networking Cyberheist Scams, Including Phishing

The Norton/Symantec “Your Security Resource” newsletter recently featured a story entitled “ Top 5 Social Media Scams” that’s worth a read-through. It talks about the kinds of scams and ...
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Fabulous Anti-Phishing/Cybercrime News Resource

[caption id="attachment_130" align="aligncenter" width="488" caption="The banner at YourMoneyIsNotSafeInTheBank.org says it all!"] [/caption] The name of the site that provides the ...
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Hackers Pull A Tasty Variation on the ACH Cyberheist Technique

On January 19, PC World reported an interesting twist on an old but still favorite phishing scam called the ACH, or Automated Clearing House, scam in a story entitled "Hackers Steal ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: The Enduring Value of User Education and Awareness

There’s an old saying that “If you create a system that any idiot can use, then only idiots will find it useful.” And while many companies and organizations may feel compelled to “dumb ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training Basics

A great many “teaching stories” from various traditions emphasize how the press of daily life, or normal human emotions, can crowd out and turn off common sense. At its core foundation, ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: KnowBe4 Is Going On The Road

KnowBe4 will be making a splash in 2011! We have several events on our calendar where you can see us and we hope to see you at several of these events where we would love to show you our ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: Dynamic Content Updates - The Secret Sauce

Up to now, Security Awareness Training was static. Canned instruction sessions that could be a year old, an eternity on the Internet. Cyber criminals move fast though. Malware evolves ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: 7 Reasons Why Organizations Use Online Training

7 Reasons Why Organizations Use Online Training 1. Reduce Costs - How you manage training is always about how you manage costs. 2. Access to Talent - Especially hard when it gets to ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: Defense-In-Depth

What is defense-in-depth? Organizations defend their networks on each of the six levels in the graph you see. End-user Internet Security Awareness Training resides in the outer layer: ...
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