Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
Google Research analyzed over a billion emails passing through Gmail, and the results were presented yesterday at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. Extremely interesting ...
It is time to remind your users that heartless con artists use social engineering tactics to trick people looking for love. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center warns every year that ...
More than 1,000 government computer systems shut down. A county in Ohio, US, has had to shut down its entire IT infrastructure due to a ransomware infection. County Auditor Mike Smith ...
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Wednesday Jan 4th, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned about an active phishing campaign that has malicious PDF attachments in a new scam to steal email credentials. The SANS bulletin ...
Our friends at www.Social-Engineer.org sent me some interesting news in their January newsletter: "Adobe recently announced Project VoCo at the November Adobe Max conference.
As one of his last actions in office, President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats spies in retaliation for Russia interfering with the U.S. election process, after intelligence agencies ...
Talk about adding insult to injury with this new KillDisk version. Here is how social engineering can cost you dearly. The Sandworm cybercrime gang has upped its game. They were initially ...
I have been looking at the coming year and what trends you will probably see actually deployed in your network. These trends are the practical things that will help you to keep your ...
Today, news broke that George Michael was found dead on Sunday at his home in Goring in Oxfordshire, England. He was 53. A police statement said: “Thames Valley Police were called to a ...
Confidential health data or personal information of more than 750,000 people may have been accessed in a cyberattack on Los Angeles County employees in May that led to charges this week ...
This is getting old. It's all over the press... again. Here is a Reuters article where I am quoted, which covers the most recent billion-record Yahoo hack. Some people asked me after our ...
KnowBe4, the most popular security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, and Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and data ...
In the September/ October timeframe this year it became clear that Yahoo had lost more than 500 million records which was the biggest hack of the year. Who knew that they would top ...
By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Phishing attacks have long been associated with malicious emails that spoof well-known institutions in order to trick users into coughing ...
Two of the big cybersecurity attacks are the CEO Fraud (aka Business Email Compromise) which has caused $3.4 billion in damages as well as the W-2 Scams which social engineer ...
Distributed denial of service attacks, also known as DDoS, are becoming a major threat. They can bring websites and networks down, and generally make a lot of noise demanding attention. ...
Hackers penetrated six Saudi Arabian government agencies including its General Authority of Civil Aviation, and bricked thousands of computers with the well-known Shamoon disk-wiper ...
With the biggest cybercriminal hacking holidays of the year upon us, it's time for a reminder of red flags to pay attention to when shopping either online or in brick-and-mortar stores.
We get thousands of real phishing emails in, reported to us by customers using the free KnowBe4 Phish Alert Button. On a daily basis, these reported phishing emails get analyzed by the ...
