FBI Warns of Spear-Phishing Attacks
Spear-phishing attacks are up, and they are targeting individuals across all industries, according to a new warning issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .
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Spear-phishing attacks are up, and they are targeting individuals across all industries, according to a new warning issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .
Price Waterhouse (PwC) and CSO Magazine just released their 2013 State of Cybercrime Survey. It shows that lack of risk awareness means companies are poorly defended. This is their 11th ...
It appears that Edward Snowden used a thumb drive to exfiltrate the Top Secret files documents from NSA's network. The US DoD banned the use of flash drives in 2008 after Defense systems ...
Scam Of The Week: CIA Prism Watchlist Just this morning, a researcher discovered an email uploaded to Virustotal called CIA's_prism_Watchlist_.eml. The content refers to Snowden, and the ...
The super popular SlideShare site has featured our Seven Social Engineering Vices slide deck on their front page for a short time. Here is what they sent me!
Eugene Kaspersky recently gave one of his very rare interviews. He was in Israel for a staff recruitment tour, and was quoted saying:"
Kevin Mitnick and I were both interviewed on FOX TV about how to fight hackers, and what hackers are after these days. You will see Kevin, me, the KnowBe4 office and some of the KnowBe4 ...
The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices blog post has been viewed well over 11,000 times and has gone viral. That's why we created a (much prettier) SlideShare version for you which you ...
Inadequate response plans and poorly executed procedures caused data breach costs to rise significantly at some businesses, according to the Ponemon Institute. Mistakes, negligence and ...
UPDATED June 9: 16:51p - In an interview with TechCrunch, Eugene H. Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue and a noted expert in computer security observed something ...
Our VP Channel asked me to record a 90-second elevator pitch why next-generation security awareness training is necessary to keep your network secure. Here it is! (pant, pant...)
Chelan County Treasurer David Griffiths says Leavenworth's hospital district stands to recover less than half the $1 million stolen in an online banking theft. About $415,000 has been ...
We created a fun new little quiz you could send to your users!
This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion using spear-phising. In summary, they phished Onion employees’ Google Apps accounts via 3 separate methods. From ...
According to a recent research of Group-IB on cybercrime, senior management is considered among most popular targets.
Symantec just released a white paper where they compared their product with 6 other enterprise endpoint security products. They had AV-Test do the review, and they included above graph to ...
(updated June 17, 2015) You may not be aware that there is a scale of seven deadly vices connected to social engineering. The deadliest social engineering attacks are the ones that have ...
This one qualifies as a Scam Of The Week and it's a good one to forward to your employees.
OK, we all know that there is a lively trade in 0-day threats. Often this is an unknown vulnerability in a popular browser that is not fixed yet. Microsoft recently announced they fixed ...