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Happy 22nd Annual SysAdmin Day from KnowBe4!

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

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 ...
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Remote Employees Adopt Bad Cybersecurity Habits While Working from Home

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.
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Microsoft Takes Down Homoglyph Domains

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 ...
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The Pandemic’s Paradigm Shift with Cybersecurity

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

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

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

Despite organizational leadership believing cyber security initiatives can support business goals, the way businesses approach cybersecurity seems to prove otherwise.
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60% of Orgs Needed New Security Policies to Secure Their Remote Workforce

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

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

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

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

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.
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Fake Positive Reviews Mask Spoofed Browser Extensions

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

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

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.
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May the 4th Be With You and Your Users!

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

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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FBI Obtains Authorization to Access US Servers to Remove Webshells Due to Exchange Vulnerability

Your server could have been compromised and the FBI was trying to mitigate the issue without you even knowing it yet.
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Australian Organizations Increase Cyber Security Spend to Nearly A$5B in 2021

The rise in cyberattacks in Australia is seeing its natural result – organisations realizing the need to put more budget focused on cybersecurity, with the largest portion going towards ...
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