Georgia Tech Researchers Try To Stop Spear-phishing

Mar 18, 2013 7:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Georgia Tech correctly identified that the most challenging threat facing corporate networks today is “spear phishing.” “Spear phishing is the most popular way to get into a corporate ...

28 Percent of Data Breaches Lead to Fraud

Mar 7, 2013 2:29:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cyberwar? Time To Calm Down A Bit

Mar 6, 2013 9:46:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The media has a field day with this whole China / Mandiant report, but there are a few issues being confused here. It's all good and well to make the public aware of the fact that foreign ...

Osterman Blogs About KnowBe4

Feb 25, 2013 5:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Highly regarded IT Analyst Mike Osterman wrote: "Most will agree that despite the enormous amounts spent on secure Web gateways, anti-virus software, cloud-based malware filtering and the ...

PDF 0-day Vulnerability Being Exploited In The Wild

Feb 21, 2013 2:28:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week, Adobe warned customers that a few new exploits that target Acrobat Reader were being exploited in the wild. Keep an eye out for patches that are expected soon. The exploits are ...

Security firms slow to react to spear phishing like that used in China hack

Feb 21, 2013 1:54:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antone Gonsales at the CSO site hits the nail on the head: "Email security vendors have failed to do enough to protect customers against advanced cyberattacks like the one recently linked ...

Which Antivirus Has The Best Phishing Protection? Surprise!

Feb 19, 2013 6:16:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I ran across some very interesting research recently done by NSS Labs. They compared twelve of the most popular antivirus engines, they call them endpoint protection products (EPP) and ...

New CyberSec Executive Order IT Impact Zero

Feb 16, 2013 5:32:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last Tuesday, the White House issued the long awaited CyberSec Executive Order, which makes an attempt to outline policies that will protect US organizations against cyber-attacks and ...

Cyber Bullying

Feb 14, 2013 5:07:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 is a market leader in security awareness training for employees in an office environment. However, when we asked people who finished the training what they thought, they said they ...

Feb SANS Monthly Awareness Video

Feb 6, 2013 2:55:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may be familiar with our friends at SANS. For their 'Securing The Human' team, every month is security awareness month, same as here at KnowBe4. On the first of every month they post ...

IT security equals job security

Feb 6, 2013 2:23:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Did you ever expect that our IT networks would be a worldwide battleground for highly sophisticated cyber warfare? IT security certainly will provide job security for the next decade or ...

TODAY SPECIAL Kevin Mitnick On Home Shopping Network

Feb 2, 2013 1:10:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Febuary 2, 2013 - Today, Kevin Mitnick is part of Home Shopping Network's TODAY SPECIAL! Kevin partnered with KnowBe4 to create security awareness training for employees in an enterprise ...

Fake Apple Invoices

Jan 23, 2013 2:57:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Internet criminals are getting more and more inventive with their social engineering attacks. Here are two examples of fake Apple invoices. The first is an example from the Sophos blog ...

Facebook Scams You Need To Watch Out For

Jan 19, 2013 2:21:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Facebook is loved far and wide by scammers. It's a great pool of an almost unlimited amount of victims, most of whom are gullible enough to fall for the most simple scams. Shooting fish ...

VERY Positive Beta Results Home Internet Security Course

Jan 18, 2013 8:56:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may know that we are coming out with an Home Internet Security Course for consumers. Why? When we asked the participants who finished our enterprise Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness ...

Upper Management Often Ignores IT Security Policy

Jan 17, 2013 8:16:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Over the years I have had a nagging suspicion that only today was confirmed. I ran into a study done last year done by a company called Cryptzone who interviewed 300 IT Security ...

Facebook Graph Search Is Social Engineering Bonanza

Jan 17, 2013 1:59:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Zuck has come out with something new, and you always need to watch it when that happens. It's a combination of big data and social networking so that people can easily find new friends, ...

Healthcare Security Awareness Training

Jan 15, 2013 5:35:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 and it's CEO Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced shower-man) were featured in For The Record Magazine, a leading publication for Healthcare. The article was about the risks of Bring Your ...

How to Address Securitys Weakest Link

Dec 24, 2012 1:53:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

User Awareness Tops Security Leaders' List of Challenges Tom Field over at the Healthcare Infosecurity Site nails it:" Heading into 2013, security leaders across industry feel confident ...

Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013

Dec 17, 2012 6:00:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Here Are Your 13 Predictions For 2013 - First Quantity, Now Quality: In 2013, cybercrime will focus more on quality than before. They will opt for increasingly smart malware, and more ...

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