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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.

Exploits Leveraging Excel 4.0 Macros Increase as Organizations Continue to Rely on this Legacy Technology

Despite being nearly 30 years old, Excel’s very functional macro technology appears to be a little too functional, as attackers have stepped up its use to advance cyberattacks.

Think Tanks Targeted by APT Actors

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI have issued a joint advisory warning that nation-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are targeting US ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from November: Including A New Holiday Training Resource Kit

Here are important fresh content updates and new features to share with you for the month of November.

[HEADS UP] FBI Warns US Companies of BEC Scammers

The Federal Bureau Investigation is issuing warnings to US companies that are taking advantage of email auto-forwarding. If successful, this would fall right into the trap of a business ...

Is the Secret to Stopping Cyberattacks Making Users "Phishing Aware"?

The sheer volume of successful phishing attacks indicates that security solutions – at very least – aren’t stopping all attacks. So how does security awareness training help top attacks ...

[Heads-Up] A Hacker Is Selling Access To The Email Accounts Of Hundreds Of C-Level Executives

ZDNet's Zero Day column just reported one of the best reasons why you should step your users through new-school security awareness training yet:

How Many Phishing Sites? Over 2 Million in 2020 (so far)

Google has flagged 2.02 million phishing sites since the beginning of the year, averaging forty-six thousand sites per week, according to researchers at Atlas VPN. The researchers note ...

Famous U.K. Soccer Club Becomes the Next Victim of a Cyber Attack

The famous UK soccer club Manchester United recently became the next victim of a cyber attack. The club stated that the personal data from fans have not been stolen.

OPSEC, OPSEC, OPSEC...

The BBC reported: "A Dutch journalist managed to gatecrash a confidential video conference of EU defense ministers. Daniel Verlaan of RTL Nieuws joined the meeting after the Dutch defence ...

[HEADS UP] Allowing Site Notifications Can be Very Costly

Krebs on Security reported that there have been an increasing number of websites asking visitors to approve 'notifications'. In most cases these notifications are not malicious, but ...