As You Read This, It's Cyber Monday. How To Avoid The Top 10 Security Threats

Nov 24, 2018 11:15:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

InfoSecBuzz asked a number of security experts for their advice on the top security threats and how to avoid them. These are specialists from Alienvault, Cylance, Cybereason, F5 Networks, ...

[Heads-up] Bad Guys Are Now Taking Over Email Inboxes Without Phishing Attacks

Nov 24, 2018 8:43:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I found a great article in SecurityWeek by Alastair Paterson, the CEO of Digital Shadows. Could not have said it better myself, and he alerted everyone about an attack vector that was ...

Do Your Emails Make the Naughty or Nice List?

Nov 21, 2018 3:31:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Black Friday is just as popular with hackers as it is with shoppers. So is Cyber Monday, for that matter.

CEOs are Prime Targets for Social Engineering Attacks

Nov 20, 2018 4:46:20 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CEOs can be the weakest link in an organization’s security posture, according to Mimecast’s Matthew Gardiner. Carole Theriault talked to Gardiner last week on The CyberWire’s Hacking ...

How better training, cybersecurity upgrades made one credit union safer

Nov 18, 2018 9:58:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

America’s Christian Credit Union, Glendora, Calif., reduced its cybersecurity threat plane by 90 percent by upgrading both its hardware and its resistance to phishing – and earned a ...

Hacked Law Firm Can't Claw Back $580,000 From Bank That Completed Transfer

Nov 17, 2018 2:50:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Max Mitchell at Law.com has an interesting and rather painful story. Don't let this happen to your organization.

KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Training

Nov 16, 2018 2:07:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training for the second year in a row. ...

Tweets from Elon Musk Still Aren't What They Seem

Nov 8, 2018 11:04:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We've seen this before, and it's worth noting again. A tweet from a blue-checked Elon Musk is all it takes to set a Bitcoin giveaway frenzy into motion. The only problem is that it’s just ...

Having a Cybersecurity Culture Matters (and Pays)

Nov 7, 2018 10:51:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to ISACA and the CMMI Institute, organizations continue to invest heavily in security technology while neglecting security training to create the appropriate corporate culture.

Security is a Whole-of-Organization Responsibility

Nov 7, 2018 10:43:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We've blogged about other recent studies of security. They're in substantial agreement. Here's one from Gemalto, and it reports that more than 4.5 billion digital records, each with an ...

Catphishing or Emotional Terrorism or Both: You Decide

Nov 7, 2018 7:01:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A 65-year-old woman from North Carolina, Roxanne Reed, is in jail for allegedly plotting to kill her mother for the insurance money. Roxanne Reed had swallowed a catphishing scam, one in ...

CSO: Users Pose the Greatest Security Risk

Nov 6, 2018 9:45:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from CSO’s 2018 U.S. State of Cybercrime report highlights the risk users create, and how little organizations are doing to address it.

Most Americans Can be Fooled by Fake Election Emails

Nov 5, 2018 6:50:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The average American cannot reliably distinguish between fake and legitimate election campaign emails, according to a study by Valimail. In the weeks leading up to the US midterm ...

Successful Pretexting Attacks Have Nearly Tripled since 2017

Nov 1, 2018 4:02:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Pretexting attacks are a growing threat to organizations, warn Chris Tappin and Simon Ezard from the Verizon Threat Research Advisory Centre. Verizon’s 2018 Digital Breach Investigation ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content Update & New Features October 2018

Oct 31, 2018 3:53:07 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

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

Elon Musk Draws Attention to Cryptocurrency Scams on Twitter

Oct 30, 2018 10:35:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Tesla founder’s recent tweet about cryptocurrency got him temporarily locked out of his Twitter account, demonstrating the seriousness of the scam.

Security Rule-Breaking from Ignorance, Convenience, Curiosity

Oct 29, 2018 7:22:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ignorance of security policies and security threats is one of the primary reasons why employees break cybersecurity rules, says Ericka Chickowski at Dark Reading. A study conducted by ...

Everyone’s Cyber-Worried; No One’s Cyber-Prepared

Oct 22, 2018 1:55:14 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data from the 2018 Chubb Cyber Risk Survey shows people and companies have a false sense of cybersecurity and aren’t really doing much about it.

Three Out of Ten People Would Fall for Impersonation Scams

Oct 15, 2018 10:29:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phony police calls in the US have been telling people they need to pay a fine for missing jury duty. In the UK the scams take a different form: the bogus police are asking for the ...

Your Users Need to be Smarter than the Scammers

Oct 11, 2018 1:08:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fraudsters have all but eliminated indicators used to detect fake identities on line, reports Socure, a predictive analytics provider. The difference between authentic and fake identities ...

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