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 ...

The Secret Of The Net One Big Buggy Beta

Dec 9, 2012 3:13:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Most people look at me surprised when I tell them the internet is still in beta, but it's true,

Malware called Eurograbber steals 36 million Euros

Dec 7, 2012 5:57:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

If cybercrime would be promoting their malware, for sure they would call their EuroGrabber 'next-generation' Zeus crimeware. This is (a lot) more than your run-of-the-mill banking Trojan. ...

Guy Gets SWAT Team-ed for Not Securing His Wireless Network

Dec 6, 2012 8:49:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need ...

Mass phishing emails a thing of the past?

Dec 5, 2012 6:41:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The net-security website reported: "PhishMe predicts that phishers will be changing their tactics in 2013 resorting to targeted spear phishing emails rather than the mass mails of the ...

91% of cyberattacks begin with spear phishing email

Nov 29, 2012 3:27:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antony Savvas at Computerworld UK had a good write-up about this quite interesting news: "Some 91% of cyberattacks begin with a "spear phishing" email, according to research from security ...

$345,000 Cyberheist Settles After Three Years Dispute

Nov 27, 2012 9:08:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Patco Consulting was one of the first companies to seek protection via the courts after more than half a million dollars was stolen out of their bank via an account takeover by eastern ...

One phishing email exposes millions of people to data theft in South Carolina cyberattack

Nov 21, 2012 1:45:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

NBC News reported: COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A single malicious email sent to workers at the South Carolina Department of Revenue last August enabled an international hacker to crack into state ...

VCs Validate Security Awareness Training

Nov 18, 2012 6:32:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I am very encouraged to see our friends at PhishMe getting 2.5 Million in Venture money to expand their business. With this new investment, Christopher Steed, Vice President at Paladin ...

How a Coca-Cola Exec Fell for a Hacker's E-mail Trick

Nov 7, 2012 9:35:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the annals of what-was-I-thinking moments in computer security, this has to be one of the most gobsmacking. According to a Bloomberg News investigation of a series of undisclosed ...

7 shortcuts To Get Your Network Hacked Final Results

Nov 7, 2012 3:24:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Shortcuts To Get Hacked[/caption] October 30, 2012 we asked system administators: "In your opinion, what are the most gruesome errors a ...

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