Consumer Reports: 9.2 Million Phishing Victims Last Year

May 1, 2013 4:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Consumer Reports today came out with some numbers that should give you pause. 9.2 Million Americans fell victim to a phishing attack last year, and a whopping 58.2 Million had a malware ...

$1Million Cyberheist From Leavenworth Hospital

Apr 27, 2013 3:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Mitnick sent me an article that illustrates why it is needed to train all employees not to fall for hacker tricks: "Friday, April 26, 2013 - WENATCHEE — Hackers stole more than $1 ...

LivingSocial Hacked. Make sure that password is not shared!

Apr 27, 2013 3:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream

Apr 26, 2013 10:02:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

10 Tips To Secure Funding For A Security Program

Apr 21, 2013 3:54:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Over at the CSO site, Dominic Nessi, CIO for Los Angeles World Airports, outlines ten essential tips for getting your financial team on board with your security funding requests.

Phishing Confusion Example

Apr 7, 2013 12:42:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

So, yesterday I received this email from my Identity Theft Provider. Been with them since 2008 so I know how their emails look. Normally I get the "all clear" signal once a month, but ...

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing

Mar 21, 2013 7:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing. It was to be expected. Cyber criminals now are able to scrape your followers from Twitter, and send you a Direct Message (DM) supposedly coming from ...

28 Percent of Data Breaches Lead to Fraud

Mar 7, 2013 2:29:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

PDF 0-day Vulnerability Being Exploited In The Wild

Feb 21, 2013 2:28:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week, Adobe warned customers that a few new exploits that target Acrobat Reader were being exploited in the wild. Keep an eye out for patches that are expected soon. The exploits are ...

Security firms slow to react to spear phishing like that used in China hack

Feb 21, 2013 1:54:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antone Gonsales at the CSO site hits the nail on the head: "Email security vendors have failed to do enough to protect customers against advanced cyberattacks like the one recently linked ...

Which Antivirus Has The Best Phishing Protection? Surprise!

Feb 19, 2013 6:16:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I ran across some very interesting research recently done by NSS Labs. They compared twelve of the most popular antivirus engines, they call them endpoint protection products (EPP) and ...

Cyber Bullying

Feb 14, 2013 5:07:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 is a market leader in security awareness training for employees in an office environment. However, when we asked people who finished the training what they thought, they said they ...

Feb SANS Monthly Awareness Video

Feb 6, 2013 2:55:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may be familiar with our friends at SANS. For their 'Securing The Human' team, every month is security awareness month, same as here at KnowBe4. On the first of every month they post ...

Facebook Graph Search Is Social Engineering Bonanza

Jan 17, 2013 1:59:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Zuck has come out with something new, and you always need to watch it when that happens. It's a combination of big data and social networking so that people can easily find new friends, ...

How to Address Securitys Weakest Link

Dec 24, 2012 1:53:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

User Awareness Tops Security Leaders' List of Challenges Tom Field over at the Healthcare Infosecurity Site nails it:" Heading into 2013, security leaders across industry feel confident ...

Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013

Dec 17, 2012 6:00:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013 - First Quantity, Now Quality: In 2013, cybercrime will focus more on quality than before. They will opt for increasingly smart malware, and more ...

Malware called Eurograbber steals 36 million Euros

Dec 7, 2012 5:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

If cybercrime would be promoting their malware, for sure they would call their EuroGrabber 'next-generation' Zeus crimeware. This is (a lot) more than your run-of-the-mill banking Trojan. ...

Mass phishing emails a thing of the past?

Dec 5, 2012 6:41:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The net-security website reported: "PhishMe predicts that phishers will be changing their tactics in 2013 resorting to targeted spear phishing emails rather than the mass mails of the ...

91% of cyberattacks begin with spear phishing email

Nov 29, 2012 3:27:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antony Savvas at Computerworld UK had a good write-up about this quite interesting news: "Some 91% of cyberattacks begin with a "spear phishing" email, according to research from security ...

One phishing email exposes millions of people to data theft in South Carolina cyberattack

Nov 21, 2012 1:45:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

NBC News reported: COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A single malicious email sent to workers at the South Carolina Department of Revenue last August enabled an international hacker to crack into state ...

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