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June 14, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

FBI’s Advice on Spotting Phishing

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released a PSA warning that attackers are exploiting people’s trust in sites that use HTTPS. Cybersecurity training has in the past rightly ...

June 14, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Social Engineering is at the Root of Nearly all Fraud Attacks

According to the latest fraud report from RSA, all four of the documented fraud attack methods use some form of social engineering to trick victims into giving up their money.

June 11, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Extortion Threatens Reputational Damage

Scammers are sending emails threatening to damage the reputation of websites unless the sites’ owners hand over 0.3 bitcoin, or around $2,400, according to BleepingComputer.

June 11, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

The CIA will not Fix Your Online Rap Sheet

Scammers are still posing as CIA employees and telling victims that they’re about to be arrested for their involvement in an international pedophile ring, according to the Register. The ...

June 10, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

Corporate Email Creates Unavoidable Phishing Risk

It’s impossible to avoid the risk of phishing attacks entirely, since employees still need to do their jobs, as Kelly Sheridan at Dark Reading puts it. Sheridan points to a recent report ...

June 7, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Fresh Content and Feature Updates - May 2019

Check out the content and feature updates in the KnowBe4 platform for the month of May!

May 31, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

It only takes three seconds...

“Statistics suggest the average human being falls for a social engineering attack about four times — with training — before they become ‘inoculated’ against that type of attack,” “Helpful ...

May 31, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

[Policy Template] Should Failing Phishing Tests Be A Fireable Offense?

Firing employees for failing phishing tests can be extremely counterproductive and can damage an organization’s overall security posture. That, at any rate, is what two security experts ...

May 31, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

"Delete" Notification as Office 365 Phishbait

Attackers are posing as Office 365 support in phishing emails that warn users about an “unusual volume of file deletion” on their accounts, BleepingComputer has found. The emails claim ...

May 31, 2019 Stu Sjouwerman

A Case of Password Spraying

Citrix last month confirmed the FBI’s suspicions that hackers had used a technique known as “password spraying” to compromise the company’s networks before stealing a massive amount of ...

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