Learn about current phishing techniques, notable campaigns and attacks, what to watch out for 'in the wild', and more.
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 ...
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, ...
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 - First Quantity, Now Quality: In 2013, cybercrime will focus more on quality than before. They will opt for increasingly smart malware, and more ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 13"][/caption] Microsoft released their Security Intelligence Report (SIR) last week, ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Hackers have a great new reason to send you a UPS notification regarding your new iPhone 5 shipment. In times like this when people are eagerly waiting for an email of this type the ...
* Scam Of The Week: Fake AmEx "Security Verification" Phishing attacks come in waves. Old ones get "refurbished" and sent out again after several months. Shiny new ones are cooked up all ...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures"][/caption] Wath out for the latest Internet craze. The bad guys are having a field day with ...
An existing KnowBe4 customer tweeted about a fresh scam with the hashtag #RedFlag, and sure enough it had quite a few Red Flags. The bad guys are getting quite inventive, this time ...
