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Read the latest news about security awareness training, best practices, why you need it, and what happens when you don't have it in place.

Dutch Intelligence Agencies Warn About Chinese and Russian Cyber Espionage

Chinese and Russian state hackers threaten the Dutch economy. Three Dutch intelligence agencies jointly sound the alarm about digital espionage in financial newspaper Het Financieele ...

[Scary?] AI Can Now Learn To Manipulate Human Behavior

The Conversation just published something I have been worried about for a while now. Scary? Could be getting that way sometime soon. They said: "Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning ...

Cannabis Company Loses Millions in BEC Scam

Australian medicinal cannabis company Cann Group has lost $3.6 million in a business email compromise (BEC) attack, Stockhead reports. The company had thought it was paying an unnamed ...

[World Premiere] KnowBe4’s New Season 3 of Netflix-Style Security Awareness Video Series - ‘The Inside Man’

We’re excited to announce Season 3 of the award-winning KnowBe4 Original Series - ‘The Inside Man’. This network-quality video training series delivers an entertaining learning experience ...

The Three Best Things You Can Do To Improve Your Computer Security

The three best things you can do to improve your computer security, bar anything, have been the same three things you should have already been doing for the entirety of computers. The top ...

Every Employee is Part of Your Security

Employees are an essential component of an organization’s security defenses, according to Nico Popp, Chief Product Officer at Forcepoint. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, Popp ...

Cold Reality Dawns: Covid-19 Is Likely Here to Stay But Your Employees Are Vulnerable

The Wall Street Journal just wrote: "As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Likely Here to Stay. Ease of transmission, new strains, limits of vaccination ...

How the United States Lost to Hackers, And Why The New President Wants To Fix It With 10 Billion Dollars

Nicole Perlroth, the New York Times cybersecurity reporter, just came out with a very interesting perspective on our troubles with foreign adversaries, in part created by our own ...

Hackers are Winning the Cyberwar, Largely Because They Target People

Researchers at HackNotice have found that the number of data breaches is increasing, while the number of breach notifications is declining, SecurityWeek reports. HackNotice analyzed ...

Trickbot is Targeting the Legal Sector

Researchers at Menlo Security warn of an ongoing Trickbot campaign targeting the legal and insurance industries. Trickbot is a notorious remote access Trojan that was in the crosshairs of ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from January: Including 'The Inside Man' Season 3 Official Trailer

Here are important fresh content updates and new features to share with you that happened in the month of January.

Data Privacy and Fingerprints

Most people know, primarily criminals, that you don't want to leave the oils from your fingers at a crime scene because it creates a fingerprint. Everyone has them (unless they don't have ...

World Economic Forum: COVID Makes Cybersecurity Problem No. 1

The WEF just published their recent survey over worldwide corporate leaders. When asked about technology objectives that have become a greater priority due to COVID, they elevated ...

Interpol Warns of Romance Scams

Interpol has issued a notice describing a scam tactic popular on dating applications. The scheme is a mixture of a romance scam and an investment fraud, taking advantage of victims’ ...

The 10 Phases Of Organizational Security Awareness

After 10 years of continued expansion in the security awareness space and providing our platform to tens of thousands of customers, we have observed a certain progress of organizational ...

68% of Organizations Experiencing One Cyberattack Experience a Second Within 12 Months!

New data from cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike shows just having security technologies in place won’t prevent one… let alone two… cyberattacks.

Employees Are Too Trusting of Workspace Tools

A study by Avanan has found that users tend to trust workplace communication tools such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Google Hangouts, even though these platforms are subject to many of ...

Email Scammers Impersonate U.S. Government Agencies Offering Pandemic Financial Assistance

Taking advantage of people in their time of need, these bottom feeders of the cybercriminal world promise assistance and, instead, collect personal details to make a buck.

It’s Time for Organizations to Begin Propping Up the Human Firewall

Modern thinking about a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy includes a holistic approach that equally involves your users as a “human element” within your cyber defenses.

KnowBe4 Wins Multiple 2021 "Best of" Awards From TrustRadius

KnowBe4 is proud to be recognized by TrustRadius in the first-ever “Best of” Awards for usability, customer support, and feature set in the Security Awareness Training software category.


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