ransomware phishing warning issued by European Cybercrime Centre

Feb 5, 2014 8:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Looks like the bad guys are also targeting Europe with ransomware phishing scams.

FBI: The 10 Criminal Cyber Crime Professions

Feb 3, 2014 3:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Center for Cyber Forensics and Information Security (CCFIS) reported in a blog: "The FBI has recently classified the different 'professional positions' they have encountered in the ...

Social Engineering Alert: Missed Call From A Mystery Number?

Feb 3, 2014 1:59:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

TechCrunch wrote: "The people who read our site are a pretty savvy lot. You know not to accept checks from distant princes. You can spot a phisher from a mile away. But here’s one that ...

Worst Phishing Scam Of The Week Yet: Cryptolocker

Feb 1, 2014 8:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Why Security Awareness Training? Cryptolocker, That's Why... We here at KnowBe4 have been getting a lot of system admins calling us with the request for security awareness training ...

Major Hotel Franchise Announces Data Breach

Feb 1, 2014 6:59:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

White Lodging, a company that maintains hotel franchises under nationwide brands including Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton and Westin appears to have suffered a data breach that exposed credit ...

Yahoo Email Hacked

Jan 31, 2014 9:27:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yahoo warned yesterday that unknown attackers have attempted to access a number of Yahoo Mail accounts, and urged users to change their passwords even if they haven't been affected. Jay ...

Feb 1st Is National Change Your Password Day

Jan 30, 2014 3:28:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

INFOGRAPHIC: The Illusion of Personal Data Security in E-Commerce

Jan 30, 2014 9:25:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Dashlane’s first quarterly Personal Data Security Roundup was released recently. The roundup takes a look at password policies of the top 100 e-commerce sites, and the results are ...

SHOCKER: Point-Of-Failure Phishing Training Does Not Work

Jan 22, 2014 12:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Govinfosecurity site just reported on some very interesting scientific research that finds so-called "embedded training" is ineffective. Let's quickly define "embedded", they chose ...

IT security more critical now than executives expected two years ago

Jan 14, 2014 3:36:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

David Braue at CSO reported on some very interesting results of the 11th Annual Information Security Trends report by CompTIA: "28 per cent of respondents said information security was a ...

Consider security training before high-end technology

Jan 13, 2014 4:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CompterWeekly.com's "Security Think Tank" section has an opinion piece by Mike Gilespie that's right out of the KnowBe4 playbook.

Target Databreach Now 110 Mil Cards - Neiman Marcus Hacked Too

Jan 12, 2014 10:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It goes from bad to worse. The initial 40 million turns out to be really 110 million. Apparently the forensics team discovered another 70 million cards exfiltrated. And then the news ...

5 Most Dangerous Phishing Email Subjects

Jan 9, 2014 1:32:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Websense has posted some interesting new phishing research a few days ago. They started out: "With cloud infrastructure easily scalable and rented botnets coming on the cheap, the cost of ...

McAfee on Intel's decision to drop the name McAfee priceless

Jan 9, 2014 7:43:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Oh, this one is priceless.

KnowBe4 Grows 427% Year Over Year

Jan 1, 2014 9:21:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fake Adobe licence key delivery phishing emails carry malware

Dec 20, 2013 9:43:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Interesting info on phishing and social engineering on 60 minutes

Dec 16, 2013 9:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last weekend, 60-minutes had a special about the NSA which spoke out on Snowden and spying. The headline was: "The NSA gives unprecedented access to the agency's HQ and, for the first ...

10 Social Engineering Predictions for 2014

Dec 7, 2013 1:36:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here are 10 predictions for 2014, all cyber attacks using social engineering to penetrate the network. Have fun reading, and I will try to report back in 12 months which ones came out as ...

Data Security Laws And Penalties: Pay IT Now Or Pay Out Later

Dec 6, 2013 5:18:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Customers By Industry 2013

Dec 5, 2013 5:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We took a look at our customers in December 2013, and saw some interesting numbers when we broke them out by industry. Over 400 organizations, Banking and Finance together are 35% of the ...

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