Scam Of The Week: "For Sale: CyberVor False Sense Of Security"

Aug 9, 2014 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Are the credentials of one of your users among the stash of the 1.2 billion stolen passwords? A small Internet security company will tell you for just a 120 bucks per year. Their ...

Is Antivirus as Vulnerable as Any Other Product?

Jul 29, 2014 6:05:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Joxean Koret, a security researcher from the Singapore-based Coseinc, using a "fuzzer" tool he built himself, found numerous remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in multiple antivirus ...

Whitelisting Community Preview: MalwareShield

May 13, 2014 10:27:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You have heard me talk about whitelisting the last few years. Well I have some news! You may not know that most of us here at KnowBe4 are ex-antivirus people who came from the Sunbelt ...

Malware Only Lives For A Few Hours

May 12, 2014 10:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Rob Rachwald and Zheng Bu at FireEye came up with some interesting observations: "At FireEye, we look at hundreds of malware samples daily, and, in a recent talk at RSA Conference, Zheng ...

Shocker Symantec Admits That Antivirus Is Dead

May 5, 2014 9:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An article in the Wall Street Journal of May 5, 2014 summarized what I have been talking about these last few years. 25 years ago, Symantec was one of the first IT security companies to ...

What's The Best Free Antivirus For Windows 8?

Apr 16, 2014 11:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Use the free built-in antivirus called Windows Defender? Use a free tool like Avast? Buy a third party tool?

U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack

Mar 13, 2014 11:47:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Wall Street Journal this morning published something that I do NOT like at all. I am expressing myself mildly. A federal analysis says that sabotage of just nine key substations is ...

Are malware threats making anti-virus software useless?

Mar 5, 2014 1:59:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CBC News had a pretty controversial headline today. They wrote that some computer consultants say the global malware threat has gotten so bad that conventional security measures, such as ...

SNEAK PEEK at hot new site HACKBUSTERS

Feb 14, 2014 11:51:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Announces HackBusters, A Curated IT Security News Site

Yahoo Email Hacked

Jan 31, 2014 9:27:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yahoo warned yesterday that unknown attackers have attempted to access a number of Yahoo Mail accounts, and urged users to change their passwords even if they haven't been affected. Jay ...

Feb 1st Is National Change Your Password Day

Jan 30, 2014 3:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

INFOGRAPHIC: The Illusion of Personal Data Security in E-Commerce

Jan 30, 2014 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dashlane’s first quarterly Personal Data Security Roundup was released recently. The roundup takes a look at password policies of the top 100 e-commerce sites, and the results are ...

What Is The Deep Web 101

Jan 21, 2014 5:29:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Pierluigi Paganini wrote a great blog post today. The Deep Web (or Invisible Web) is all the information on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. It's HUGE. According ...

December 2013: 1 in 164 emails infected with some malware

Jan 21, 2014 11:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Symantec's Intelligence Report for December 2013 is out. To no one's surprise the rate of infected emails is increasing dramatically last quarter, it looked like this

Consider security training before high-end technology

Jan 13, 2014 4:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CompterWeekly.com's "Security Think Tank" section has an opinion piece by Mike Gilespie that's right out of the KnowBe4 playbook.

Windows Crash Reports Let NSA Spy On People

Dec 31, 2013 2:09:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

History Repeats Itself And IT Security Suffers

Dec 24, 2013 9:24:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Interesting info on phishing and social engineering on 60 minutes

Dec 16, 2013 9:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last weekend, 60-minutes had a special about the NSA which spoke out on Snowden and spying. The headline was: "The NSA gives unprecedented access to the agency's HQ and, for the first ...

Your AntiVirus Does Not See NSA's Botnet

Nov 23, 2013 12:03:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The revelations are getting wilder by the week. The NSA has its own botnet, they infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive ...

How To Create Strong, Complex Passwords to Protect Your Organization

Nov 19, 2013 2:20:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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