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.
It does not get any worse than this. Or better than this, if you are a criminal hacker. Domain-name management organization ICANN announced it has been hacked and its DNS zone ...
The lack of awareness and understanding of risks is one of the biggest challenges to information security, according to a panel of experts. Research showed that 93% of data breaches ...
Our friends at Wombat created a good summary why security awareness training is a must these days. Why?
Sony has been hacked several times, and should have learned their lesson a while ago, but no. This time it is really bad though. Late yesterday the FBI warned U.S. business that the ...
What if you knew beforehand about mergers and acquisitions, and could trade with that inside information? Well that's been going on for more than a year.
We have Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us. After losing ground to online competitors, brick-and-mortar retailers have struck back with incredible online deals. Wal-Mart said ...
Homeland Security Today has a good article which explains that cybersecurity education, including employee training and awareness programs, is vital in deterring cybercrime. The ...
This week the FTC shut down a $120M tech support scam that consumer software buyers should be aware of. Two telemarketing firms were at the center of this FTC investigation, but there are ...
Associated Press just reported that the State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from ...
It's been more than a year since the first vicious ransomware stuck up its ugly head.
The poll was conducted by Spiceworks Voice of IT on behalf of CloudEntr in September. The study collected 438 surveys from IT professionals at companies with 20 to 499 employees in ...
There is a current, active cybercrime campaign going, using the tempting lure of free pizza, researchers at Cloudmark warned. They spotted new spam emails claiming to be a campaign from ...
As if it wasn't bad enough to lose 56 million credit card accounts, now Home Depot has to admit it also lost 53 million email addresses. This gives the bad guys a fabulous opportunity to ...
The Payment Card Industry Council thinks Security Awareness Training is so important that they just published a 25-page guidance paper that fully explains the why, how and what of ...
Android phones have by far the largest market share, and thus are mobile malware target #1. There is now a new variant of the Koler malware that spreads itself via text messages and holds ...
The phones have been ringing off the hook here at KnowBe4. Not customers of ours but people that were hit with CryptoWall V2.0, needed bitcoin urgently, did a websearch and wound up with ...
Huffington Post Survey: "As another holiday shopping frenzy nears, a new survey suggests that many consumers plan to avoid the growing number of retailers that have been hacked.
I have been warning here before that Ebola phishing attacks would be more and more prevalent, as a result of the mass-media spending increasing amounts of time covering this threat.
I wanted to share a horror story with you, something that happened to somebody the day before yesterday. This is what happened in their own words:
