KnowBe4 Fresh Content & Features Updates - October 2019
Check out the content and feature updates in the KnowBe4 platform for the month of October!
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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.
Check out the content and feature updates in the KnowBe4 platform for the month of October!
Most people aren’t aware of how sophisticated phishing email templates and websites have become, according to David Dufour from Webroot. Dufour recently told the CyberWire that criminals ...
On October 25, 2019, KnowBe4 became the first and only security awareness training and simulated phishing provider to receive FedRAMP authorized status. We are very proud of this ...
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I am not a happy camper. This is exactly why I have been insisting on security awareness training for employees at critical infrastructure organizations. This could have been a Real Life ...
A ransomware attack hitting Las Cruces Public Schools forced the district to shut down the entire computer system to contain the infection.
Social engineering attacks continue to be the leading cause of compromised networks and data breaches. Today, organizations of all sizes are susceptible to these attacks and are ...
Researchers at Lookout have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including UNICEF and the Red Cross. The infrastructure ...
FBI has updated and expanded the resources and tools designed to help political campaigns, private businesses, and individuals to better understand and mitigate risks posed by foreign ...
One of the greatest inventions in modern history is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I feel sorry for any human who existed before the “age of the cup” because they never got to know the ...
Cofense warns of a phishing campaign going after credentials for the Stripe online payment platform. The attackers are sending emails purporting to be from Stripe Support, telling the ...
The BBC reports a tech support scam that caused a British man, Doug Varey, to lose £4,000. The scam began when Mr. Varey saw an online ad for twelve years’ worth of computer security ...
While most phishing campaigns involve email, SMS text messages are an ideal alternative for attackers, according to Paul Ducklin at Naked Security. Text messages are brief and uniform in ...
Ars Technica is on a roll lately with some very good articles! Here is another one that made me go "Yikes!"
It can be useful to remember that social engineering succeeds much better when its marks are stressed or hurried. That appears to be the case with an ongoing scam campaign that lays its ...
We are extremely pleased to announce we won the ComputingSecurity Award for Education and Training Provider of the Year. Here is the team accepting the award.
People shouldn’t let news of data breaches dissuade them from trying to protect their information, according to security researcher Ray [REDACTED]. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Human ...
A woman in Wales lost £1,000 to a scammer who posed as a police officer and threatened that she would lose her children if she didn’t pay the money within an hour, Wales Online reports. ...
New phishing attacks are imitating performance appraisals in order to steal employees’ credentials, according to IBM SecurityIntelligence. The attackers are posing as HR employees and ...
Ransomware attacks have increasingly been going after high-value data in order to extract larger ransoms from victims, according to the well-known law firm Cooley. This trend was ...
