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Hackers exploit Skype API to infect Windows PCs

Oct 9, 2012 3:01:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Cyber criminals are again using Skype to wreak havoc, according to Sophos's Naked Security blog. The worm they're using this time, a variant of Dorkbot, lets hackers take control of ...
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Defending Against Phishing Attacks

Oct 3, 2012 8:11:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
By now, we all know that the bad guys are using phishing and spear-phishing to go after your users and penetrate your networks. This type of social engineering attack is getting used more ...
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Scam Of The Week You Have Been Targeted For Assasination

Sep 24, 2012 4:10:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
The last few weeks, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported they received complaints about the latest version of 'Hit Man scam' which now tells people via e-mail they have been ...
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Ex-Sunbelter Joins ex-Hacker Mitnick in Anti-Hacker Training

Sep 20, 2012 3:47:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Doug Barney, Editor in Chief of Redmond Magazine did a write-up about our new Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training, which was pretty fun. You can read his blog post here
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I was quoted on CNNMoney re mobile security

Sep 17, 2012 4:29:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="230" caption="Mobile Security"][/caption] NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Security experts have warned for years that our smartphones are due for a major ...
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1-Minute-Internet-Security-Survey

Sep 15, 2012 9:13:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Could you do us a big favor? Spend one minute! We asked people which things they thought were important for Internet Security at the house. In other words, what they thought was needed to ...
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5 BYOD Deployment Rules

Sep 14, 2012 6:33:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
(1) To start off with, have a BYOD project leader that has the authority to enforce the required policies, procedures, and training to get BYOD implemented securely.
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KnowBe4 CEO TV Interview on being an Entrepreneur in Tampa Bay

Sep 5, 2012 7:30:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
KnowBe4 CEO TV Interview on being an Entrepreneur in Tampa Bay I was interviewed as a panel member at the Front Row Tampa Bay event during the 2012 RNC in Tampa, FL about the benefits of ...
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IT's 9 Biggest Security Threats

Aug 28, 2012 4:21:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="250" caption="9 Biggest Security Threats"][/caption] By now you probably know I am a fan of Roger Grimes. He's a highly skillled security veteran ...
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What is wrong with this picture?

Aug 24, 2012 9:33:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="What is wrong with this picture?"][/caption] This picture is a screen shot from the Polish TV Channel TVP. See something that ...
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Top hacker details how to avoid cybercrime

Aug 20, 2012 7:16:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="(Flickr user Alan Cleaver)"][/caption] (MoneyWatch) With the National Republican Convention fast approaching at the end of August, ...
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Apple social engineered - Allows access to iCloud

Aug 5, 2012 8:56:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Apple Tech Social Engineered"][/caption] [UPDATED August 7] Former Gizmodo reporter Mat Honan was hacked hard. He found out that an ...
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More Than Half Of Top 20 Fortune 500 Firms Infected With Gameover Zeus Botnet

Aug 3, 2012 9:00:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
The Gameover Zeus botnet is now the biggest financial fraud botnet around, and it's run by a single cybercrime group out of Eastern Europe, according to new research. Brett Stone-Gross, ...
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KnowBe4 Makes InfoWorld Frontpage

Aug 1, 2012 3:57:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="KnowBe4 InfoWorld Frontpage"][/caption] J. Peter Bruzzese, InfoWorld's Enterprise Windows columnist interviewed me yesterday about ...
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Espionage Botnets

Jul 30, 2012 8:36:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Espionage Botnets"][/caption] Brian Krebs just blogged about something very interesting. "A security researcher who’s spent 18 months ...
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My Book Cyberheist: 4-Star Review By Security Expert

Jul 30, 2012 8:26:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
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Should Compliance Drive Security?

Jul 26, 2012 9:44:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Should Compliance Drive Security?"][/caption] Practically all of us accept credit cards, so we need to be PCI compliant. The question ...
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KnowBe4 Sponsors Front Row Tampa Bay

Jul 26, 2012 7:43:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Front Row Tampa Bay"][/caption] With the Republican National Convention quickly approaching in Tampa, tens of thousands of visitors ...
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8 Signs You Have Been Hacked

Jul 18, 2012 6:35:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
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Security Is Not Only Training It Is Culture

Jul 16, 2012 6:25:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
We all went to school, but how would you do if you were asked to retake your finals? Neither would I. Education fades unless it is regularly reinforced. And even the reinforcement is ...
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