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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.

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.

[HEADS UP] Australian Cyber Security Centre is Being Used in Malware Campaign

A warning was recently issued by the Australian Government of cybercriminals impersonating the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) to infect with malware.

How to Start a Successful Security Awareness Training Program

You did it - your organization has finally decided to take the first step in implementing security awareness training. But with starting something new there tends to be a 'deer in the ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from December: Including New 2021 KnowBe4 Flagship Training Modules

Here are important fresh content updates to share with you that happened in the month of December.

[Heads Up] Here's Some Powerful Ammo To Grab More Of Your End-Of-Year InfoSec Budget

OK, let's sum up where we are, here at the end of December 2020. COVID has propelled IT from 2020 to 2030 in a matter of months. However, only a few of us were ready to have the large ...

FireEye's Mandia on SolarWinds hack: 'This was a sniper round'

Joe Warminsky at Cyberscoop wrote: "The foreign espionage operation that breached several U.S. government agencies through SolarWinds software updates was unique in its methods and ...

Just 8% of U.K. Firms Offer Regular Security Training

A majority of UK businesses are failing to adequately train their remote working employees to spot security threats, according to new research from iomart. The cloud services company ...


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