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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.

Stolen Passwords Of FTSE 100 Employees Tripled In 2017

The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index is an average of share prices in the 100 largest, most actively traded companies on the London Stock Exchange. IT security vendor ...

Watch Out For Black Newsjacking: FOSCAM camera poisoned search results

Security researchers frequently report on vulnerable IoT devices. Cisco's Talos group just reported that Foscam video cams have a security risk. We did a Google search on Foscam Indoor ...

Security Awareness Training Is a Team Effort

A security awareness program is a critical part of any security strategy. It is not enough to simply hold everyone in the organization accountable. Chief information security officers ...

KnowBe4 Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

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

Goldman Sachs Invests 30 Million Dollars in KnowBe4

I have some exciting news for you today. Goldman Sachs believes in our mission, has invested in us, and is now on our board of directors. Another announcement with some more excellent ...

The First Recorded Statement Of Security Awareness Training?

I was just sent a link to video of Kevin Mitnick's testimony before a congressional committee of March 2, 2000 where he explained how he was able to hack into dozens of large ...

"Large Enterprises Spend Nearly $300K Per Year On Security Awareness Training." Really?

Security company Bromium put out a press release asking publicly: "Large Enterprises Spend Nearly $300K Per Year On Security Education, So Why Are Endpoint Attacks More Successful Than ...

Equifax Reports Data Breach Possibly Impacting 143 Million U.S. Consumers

The Wall Street Journal just reported that Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc. disclosed Thursday that hackers gained access to some of its systems, compromising the personal ...

Introducing Behavioral Information Security

Ben Tomhave posted a great article on his "The Falcon's View" blog. Loved the concept and I'm cross-posting the whole thing in it's entirety without any edits with grateful ...

We Love The PhishMe Free Idea!

Yesterday, PhishMe's CEO Rohyt Belani came out with a great new initiative. They have created a "lite" version of their platform — they call it simplified — and they are giving it away ...

Top White House officials fall for prankster social engineering tricks

A UK-based email prankster used social engineering tactics to fool several top White House officials into responding to his messages, including the Trump administration’s cybersecurity ...

Russians Are Suspects in Phishing Attacks Involving U.S. Nuclear Site

A report from the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security warns of malware attacks targeting mainly nuclear power stations, and energy facilities. The attacks started May this ...

Security Awareness Training Can Lower Your Cyberinsurance Premium

New-school security awareness training might even pay for itself from Day 1! How? Call your cybersecurity insurance carrier or agent and specifically ask if you get a discount on the ...

See Me On Video At The NYSE Cyber Investing Summit Pitching KnowBe4

The CyberWire wrote: Pitches: "Innovation from Young Companies The Pitch Panel was the Cyber Investing Summit's fast round of innovation pitches, moderated by Allegis's Bob Ackerman and ...

ICO less likely to issue fines for data breaches if they show staff training

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has said that in the event of a data breach it would be less likely to issue a monetary penalty to charities which had taken “reasonable steps” ...

Raising Cyber Security Awareness Training Doesn’t Have to be Boring

You may not be aware that the Wall Street Journal recently created a separate WSJ Pro Cybersecurity newsletter in the form of a regular email with relevant news. Of course I subscribed to ...

Cybersecurity IQ: Americans Have Trouble Recognizing Phishing Attacks

A new Pew Research Center survey titled "What the Public Knows about Cybersecurity." tallied responses from 1,055 adults last year about their understanding of concepts important to ...

SecureWorks Exposes Phishing Russian Hacker Gang APT28

Atlanta-based SecureWorks has a Counter Threat Unit which has been closely watching the Russian hacker gang APT28 over the last few years and released brand new research. This group of ...

A Single Spear Phishing Click Caused The Yahoo Data Breach

A single click was all it took to launch one of the biggest data breaches ever. One mistaken click. That's all it took for a Canadian hacker aligned with rogue Russian FSB spies to gain ...

2016 Exceeds All Records in Numbers of Phishing Attacks

Year over year sustained growth in phishing campaigns produces yet another record number of attacks The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed that 2016 ended as the worst year for ...