Files Lost Forever Due To Buggy Ransomware

Jan 18, 2016 1:57:34 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers discovered a sample of ransomware that damages files permanently. The malicious code is based on the work of Turkish Oktu Sen security researchers, who last year made their ...

Cyber criminals release hard to recognize social engineering scam.

Jan 1, 2016 10:04:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher over at our friends at Malwarebytes reported about a new, in-the-wild tech support scam that has moved from Amazon Web Services to Rackspace's ...

Data Breach Caused By Phishing Results in $750,000 HIPAA Penalty

Dec 16, 2015 11:26:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Federal regulators have hit the University of Washington Medicine with a $750,000 penalty and a corrective action plan as part of a HIPAA settlement after a 2013 malware-related breach ...

The Top 5 Reasons To Invest In Cyber Security

Dec 5, 2015 9:59:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here's a quick condensed overview, which you can use as bullet points in your 2016 budget discussion. Today, successful data breaches happen on a daily basis. The frequency of the attacks ...

When Your Corporate Culture Frowns On Mock Phishing Attacks

Nov 21, 2015 11:23:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Now and then, when I talk to the IT people in larger organizations, they tell me they experience political headwinds in trying to get an awareness program rolled out that includes ...

KnowBe4 and Kevin Mitnick Featured in USA Today Cybersecurity Supplement

Nov 13, 2015 10:36:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We recently participated in USA Today's “Cyber Security” campaign that aims to encourage readers to recognize the importance of cyber security in their personal, financial and business ...

Apple's OS X Security Honeymoon Is Over

Oct 15, 2015 11:32:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Unfortunately, bad guys are business people too. Their time is money, and they follow market leaders. By now, Apple's market share of desktop computers is close to 17 percent. OS X, ...

Healthcare pros do not get enough security awareness training

Oct 13, 2015 5:09:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Healthcare pros surprisingly get very little security awareness training. Only 38 percent of these employees get security training at least twice a year -- 49 percent get training once a ...

Postal employees fall to internal phishing sting

Oct 8, 2015 5:15:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Aaron Boyd wrote: "Determined not to fall victim to another network breach, the U.S. Postal Service is phishing its own employees, testing their ability to recognize a scam before it's ...

Near-flawless Social Engineering attack spoiled by single flaw

Oct 8, 2015 11:22:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steve Ragan at CSO has a great story about a CEO Fraud social engineering attack that was caught just in time because the employees were given effective security awareness training. This ...

Fixing the #1 Problem in Computer Security: A Data-Driven Defense

Sep 29, 2015 10:19:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is a great whitepaper you can download for free at Microsoft written by IT Security Guru Roger Grimes. Here is the Executive Summary: "Many companies do not appropriately align ...

Report: Phishing costs average organization $3.7 million per year

Aug 29, 2015 12:14:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If you extrapolate the total annual cost of phishing for the average organization it comes to more than $3.7 million. You could shave that down by $1.8 million though, with the right ...

Breaking News: Got Hacked? The FTC Can Now Sue You

Aug 25, 2015 7:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

For organizations that get hacked like Anthem, Target and recently Ashley Madison, the problems are only starting. Apart from towering legal fees and a damaged reputation, now an appeals ...

Pentagon Top Brass Spear-phished

Aug 8, 2015 3:31:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Pentagon divulged that its computer networks were penetrated by suspected Russian hackers using spear-phishing. The hackers got into their unclassified email network used by the Joint ...

Phish or Be Phished? The Choice is Yours

Aug 1, 2015 7:40:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Guest Blogger Brad Mathis, Senior Consultant, Information Security It is mid-2015. By now, we have all seen incoming emails claiming we have been bequeathed a huge sum of money from a ...

You Asked For Training Campaigns And We Built It For You

Jul 21, 2015 9:33:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By far the most requested feature in the KnowBe4 console was Training Campaigns. We're excited to tell you they are here now, in version 5.2 of your console. When it comes to rolling out ...

Blackhat 2015 Survey: End-User Wins Easily As IT's Big Worry

Jul 17, 2015 3:50:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to the 2015 Black Hat Attendee Survey, nearly three quarters (73 percent) of top security professionals think it likely that their organizations will be hit with a major data ...

Spear Phishing Attack Results In $5.3 Million Bitcoin Cyberheist

Jul 9, 2015 2:20:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

"Newly leaked, confidential documents have revealed details into a cyberattack aimed at Bitstamp, a company that fundamentally deals as a cryptocurrency trader, according to a report in ...

What KnowBe4 Customers Say About Us July 3, 105

Jul 3, 2015 1:09:38 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hi Stu, "We're happy with the product. Getting good feedback from users who've gone through the programme and my management is highly impressed with the quality of the information given. ...

Scam Of The Week: Payment By Facebook Friend

Jul 2, 2015 5:37:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

As of last Tuesday, Facebook has switched on person-to-person (P2P) payments for users in the US to "instant-message" money to their friends, using the debit cards connected to their bank ...

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