[On-Demand Webinar] Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Learn the Methods Bad Actors Use to Hack Your Organization

Aug 4, 2021 2:04:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The digital age has unleashed massive amounts of personal and organizational data on the internet. No breaking through firewalls or exploiting vulnerabilities required.

79% of Employees Have Knowingly Engaged in Risky Online Activities in the Past Year

Aug 4, 2021 1:59:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

With employees not believing that it’s important to personally worry about cyber security risks, they also tend to believe they’re not a target, new data suggest as the reason for the ...

Happy 22nd Annual SysAdmin Day from KnowBe4!

Jul 30, 2021 8:24:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It’s the 22nd annual SysAdmin Day, a day when we celebrate all of the incredible System Administrators! While your job may not be easy (and sometimes not glamorous), your work on the ...

U.K. Employees Pose a Major Cybersecurity Risk to Business as They Return to the Office

Jul 27, 2021 1:16:12 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

After well over a year of getting used to working from home, as U.K. employees look to head back into the office, new data shows they don’t see themselves as a cyber risk (which makes ...

Remote Employees Adopt Bad Cybersecurity Habits While Working from Home

Jul 23, 2021 8:24:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new report focused on businesses looking to bring employees back to the office makes it very clear that security leaders are concerned, as remote workers have been anything but secure.

Microsoft Takes Down Homoglyph Domains

Jul 22, 2021 10:44:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Microsoft has taken legal action to shut down eighteen domains that were being used in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The sites in question used homoglyphs to impersonate ...

The Pandemic’s Paradigm Shift with Cybersecurity

Jul 9, 2021 1:18:00 PM By Anna Collard

Just over a year ago, a much-prized perk – the ability to work from home – became an everyday reality for many. ITWeb, in partnership with KnowBe4, conducted a survey to gain insight into ...

[BREAKING] NSA, Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Brute Force Global Cyber Campaign

Jul 1, 2021 12:15:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

NSA and its US and British partners (the UK's NCSC and the US FBI and CISA) late this morning released an advisory detailing a Russian campaign ("almost certainly ongoing") to brute-force ...

Yet Another Disk Image File Format Spotted in the Wild Used to Deliver Malware

Jun 29, 2021 2:00:41 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Disguised as an invoice, cybercriminals use a Windows-supported disk image to obfuscate malware from email gateways and security scanners. The question is how viable will it be?

Cybersecurity and Business Priorities Don’t Appear to Be Aligning – and That’s Bad for Your Security Stance

Jun 29, 2021 9:37:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Despite organizational leadership believing cyber security initiatives can support business goals, the way businesses approach cybersecurity seems to prove otherwise.

60% of Orgs Needed New Security Policies to Secure Their Remote Workforce

Jun 24, 2021 8:33:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to security compliance vendor ThreatSwitch in their 2021 Industrial Security Benchmark Report, organizations are waking up to the need for better awareness training.

Bad Security Habits During the Pandemic

Jun 17, 2021 8:56:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

56% of IT workers believe employees have acquired poor security habits while working remotely, according to Tessian’s Back to Work Security Behaviors report.

Tax Organizations Need to Focus on Cybersecurity

Jun 16, 2021 11:01:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Tax preparation companies and tax agencies are increasingly facing scams, fraud, and other attacks, according to Robert Capps, Vice President of Marketplace Innovation at NuData Security. ...

78% of CISOs Say Attacks Have Increased as a Result of More Employees Working from Home

Jun 8, 2021 1:37:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to new data from VMware Carbon Black, the sophistication and impact of modern cyberattacks is causing CISOs to rethink how to secure the expanding attack surface.

Chinese Hacker Group Debuts After 3 Years of Testing with a Previously Unseen Backdoor Exploit

Jun 8, 2021 1:37:27 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dubbed ‘SharpPanda’, this Chinese APT group uses malicious Word docs, .RTF templates, and the RoyalRoad malware to install a powerful backdoor DLL giving them all kinds of access.

Fake Positive Reviews Mask Spoofed Browser Extensions

Jun 3, 2021 11:08:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Malicious browser extensions often have fake positive reviews to garner trust from users, according to Brian Krebs. Krebs describes a phony Microsoft Authenticator extension in the Google ...

Get Prepared Now: New Executive Order Signals Cyber Regulations in the Future

May 28, 2021 9:54:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The White House’s latest Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity provides insight into what organizations should expect in the future and what they need to do today.

Cybersecurity Spend Is Now More Than 20% of the Average IT Budget As 91% of Organizations Suffering an Attack had Operations Impacted

May 6, 2021 8:58:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from the Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report highlights how organizations are experiencing cyber threats and how they are responding to increase their readiness for next time.

May the 4th Be With You and Your Users!

May 4, 2021 9:20:09 AM By James McQuiggan

May the force be with you, May the fourth be with you, may the phish not attack you. Okay, so it does not quite rhyme, but you get the idea. We reach the fourth day of the fifth month of ...

Mobile is a Problem: 97% of Organizations Experienced Mobile Attacks in 2020

Apr 29, 2021 8:41:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Everything from applications, social apps, OS vulnerabilities and even mobile device management acted as initial attack vectors troubling nearly every single organization globally.

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