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 ...

How a Coca-Cola Exec Fell for a Hacker's E-mail Trick

Nov 7, 2012 9:35:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the annals of what-was-I-thinking moments in computer security, this has to be one of the most gobsmacking. According to a Bloomberg News investigation of a series of undisclosed ...

Cyberheists A Helluva Wake-up Call to Small Biz

Nov 6, 2012 1:49:43 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Brian Krebs has an excellent example of a recent cyberheist. Read it and weep! The $180,000 robbery took the building security and maintenance system installer Primary Systems Inc. by ...

Top 5 Spear-Phishing Attacks Targeting Executives

Nov 2, 2012 8:15:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Twice a year, KnowBe4 publishes the Top 5 spear-phishing attacks that are used to lure executives into clicking on links or open infected attachments. We recommend sending this list to ...

What Is The Top Phishing Day Of The Week? And Why?

Oct 17, 2012 10:05:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280" caption="Top Phishing Day"][/caption] Websense reported on October 8, 2012 about their July-August 2012 research. They said: "A disturbing new ...

Black Hole Malware Dominates Web So Train Your Employees

Oct 16, 2012 10:13:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 13"][/caption] Microsoft released their Security Intelligence Report (SIR) last week, ...

Article: Is Your Credit Card Stolen? Check for free!

Oct 16, 2012 4:50:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Is Your Credit Card Stolen? Check for free! (This is a great PSA) http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/

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 ...

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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