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.
Employees see IT as an “inconvenience” and look for ways to get around security measures, putting the organization at risk, according to SailPoint’s 2018 Market Pulse Survey.
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, ...
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 ...
Black Friday is just as popular with hackers as it is with shoppers. So is Cyber Monday, for that matter.
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 ...
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 ...
Max Mitchell at Law.com has an interesting and rather painful story. Don't let this happen to your organization.
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. ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Check out the content and feature updates in the KnowBe4 platform for the month of October!
The Tesla founder’s recent tweet about cryptocurrency got him temporarily locked out of his Twitter account, demonstrating the seriousness of the scam.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
