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What's -Really- The #1 Hot Security Topic?

There is an enormous amount of noise in the security space, so how do you know what people really talk about and think is the most important topic? Well, we created the Hackbusters site ...
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I was just interviewed on TV about the JP Morgan Hack

Tampa TV station 10News WTSP interviewed me about the JP Morgan Hack. You can see the short clip here:
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Kevin Mitnick Selling 0-day Exploits Is A Good Idea

OK, so here is my take on the recent hatchet job by WIRED Magazine.
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Kevin Mitnick at Black Hat 2014

I was at Black Hat 2014, and Kevin Mitnick was also at at the show. He signed 700 books in a 3-hour span, whew! Here is the line that ran all the way back to the show floor. I took this ...
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KnowBe4 is hiring people for our sales team in Tampa Bay FL

KnowBe4 will pay anyone a thousand bucks for a referral that gets us a good sales rep!
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KnowBe4 Is Hiring A Renewal Sales/Customer Service Rep

We are hiring a Renewal Sales/Customer Service Rep
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PLEASE WHITELIST OUR NEW EMAIL SERVERS

First week of July we will cut over to a new mailserver, which allows us to use different "hover-domains" (meaning a user sees something else than the domain we used as the default up to ...
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CryptoLocker Goes SpearPhishing

You may be familiar with a site called Spiceworks. They have free system admin and network management software, and their business model is advertising to the hundreds of thousands that ...
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Elite Hackers Develop Cybercrime Attack Kits As Market Matures

Today, in the Wall Street Journal, an article told the story of a software product called blackshades that experts call a "rat" (Remote Access Trojan) which was commercially sold to cyber ...
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Wall Street Journal Quoted Me Regarding Ransomware Phishing Attacks

This week, Wall Street Journal MarketWatch reporter Priya Anand quoted me in an article she wrote about the new wave of ransomware phishing attacks.
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80% Fail To Maintain PCI Compliance Between Assessments

OUCH. Verizon said in a report this month that nearly 80% of organizations that achieve annual compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard -fail- to maintain that status after passing ...
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Knowbe4 CyberheistNews Vol 4, 07 SNEAK PEEK At New Site: HACKBUSTERS

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 07
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SNEAK PEEK at hot new site HACKBUSTERS

KnowBe4 Announces HackBusters, A Curated IT Security News Site
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06 Cryptolocker Scrambles Files Of US Law Firm

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 06
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Which HackBusters Logo Do You Like Best?

You miss important IT security news because you aren’t subscribed to the right sources, or the relevant security news is snowed under simply because of the incredible volume. So KnowBe4 ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05

CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 05
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McAfee on Intel's decision to drop the name McAfee priceless

Oh, this one is priceless.
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KnowBe4 Grows 427% Year Over Year

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Edward Snowden Used Social Engineering To Hack NSA

Ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden used user names and passwords that colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii gave him to access some of the classified material he exfiltrated. Around 20-25 ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 40

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 40
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