How long should it be?

Sep 29, 2012 4:07:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We asked people which topics they thought were important to protect their family online. They gave us eight major areas that they wanted to learn more about. We are creating a course ...

Scam Of The Week You Have Been Targeted For Assasination

Sep 24, 2012 4:10:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The last few weeks, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported they received complaints about the latest version of 'Hit Man scam' which now tells people via e-mail they have been ...

Ex-Sunbelter Joins ex-Hacker Mitnick in Anti-Hacker Training

Sep 20, 2012 3:47:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Doug Barney, Editor in Chief of Redmond Magazine did a write-up about our new Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training, which was pretty fun. You can read his blog post here

Beware Of iPhone Delivery Phishes

Sep 19, 2012 9:59:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hackers have a great new reason to send you a UPS notification regarding your new iPhone 5 shipment. In times like this when people are eagerly waiting for an email of this type the ...

Fake AmEx "Security Verification"

Sep 4, 2012 3:13:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

* Scam Of The Week: Fake AmEx "Security Verification" Phishing attacks come in waves. Old ones get "refurbished" and sent out again after several months. Shiny new ones are cooked up all ...

What is wrong with this picture?

Aug 24, 2012 9:33:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="What is wrong with this picture?"][/caption] This picture is a screen shot from the Polish TV Channel TVP. See something that ...

Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures

Aug 24, 2012 4:49:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Scam Alert: Naked Prince Harry Pictures"][/caption] Wath out for the latest Internet craze. The bad guys are having a field day with ...

Top hacker details how to avoid cybercrime

Aug 20, 2012 7:16:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="(Flickr user Alan Cleaver)"][/caption] (MoneyWatch) With the National Republican Convention fast approaching at the end of August, ...

Special Scam Of The Week: Big Brand Hijacking

Aug 17, 2012 10:16:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

An existing KnowBe4 customer tweeted about a fresh scam with the hashtag #RedFlag, and sure enough it had quite a few Red Flags. The bad guys are getting quite inventive, this time ...

30 percent of corporate users are infected with malware every year

Aug 17, 2012 4:25:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="30% Users Infected Per Year"][/caption] According to Radicati Group, 30 percent of corporate users are infected with malware every ...

Apple social engineered - Allows access to iCloud

Aug 5, 2012 8:56:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Apple Tech Social Engineered"][/caption] [UPDATED August 7] Former Gizmodo reporter Mat Honan was hacked hard. He found out that an ...

More Than Half Of Top 20 Fortune 500 Firms Infected With Gameover Zeus Botnet

Aug 3, 2012 9:00:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Gameover Zeus botnet is now the biggest financial fraud botnet around, and it's run by a single cybercrime group out of Eastern Europe, according to new research. Brett Stone-Gross, ...

KnowBe4 Makes InfoWorld Frontpage

Aug 1, 2012 3:57:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="KnowBe4 InfoWorld Frontpage"][/caption] J. Peter Bruzzese, InfoWorld's Enterprise Windows columnist interviewed me yesterday about ...

CyberheistNews vol2, #34

Jul 31, 2012 6:29:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #33 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Olympics Scam Roundup The bad guys are at it again! Please ...

My Book Cyberheist: 4-Star Review By Security Expert

Jul 30, 2012 8:26:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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KnowBe4 Sponsors Front Row Tampa Bay

Jul 26, 2012 7:43:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Front Row Tampa Bay"][/caption] With the Republican National Convention quickly approaching in Tampa, tens of thousands of visitors ...

CyberheistNews vol2, #33

Jul 26, 2012 4:38:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews vol2, #31

Jul 26, 2012 4:11:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #31 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training

CyberheistNews vol2, #30

Jul 26, 2012 4:07:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews vol2, #29

Jul 26, 2012 4:02:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #29 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] 15 Social Media Scams Not just -one- Scam of the week, but a ...

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