Social Engineering Fraud and Cyber Insurance – Are You Covered?

We’ve covered this before but here’s another article on exclusionary clauses. The loophole: "No unauthorized use of the victims Computer System". Excellent reminder by Drinker Biddle ...

March 22, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Why Social Engineering Works And How To Arm Yourself Against "Human Hacking"

Let me share some observations after 7 years of building KnowBe4 from scratch into a 100 million dollar company. We train your employees to recognize social engineering attacks and not ...

March 20, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

How To: Social Engineering A Whole Country During An Election

Check out this fascinating 13 min interview with Christopher Wylie, a former research director at Cambridge Analytica, who had a copy of a dataset with 50 million Facebook profiles. He ...

March 10, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

FTC Study: Millennials Are The Biggest Victims Of Social Engineering

A report from the FTC found that 40% of adults age 20-29 lost money to fraud, while only 18% of adults over the age of 70 did so, challenging the narrative of older adults falling victim ...

February 21, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Now HERE Is A Devious Combo pretexting / vishing / SMS Social Engineering Attack!

Someone on Reddit described how he was the victim of a very sophisticated social engineering attack. Wow, this is crafty. This is the story!: "I have different passwords for every website ...

February 2, 2018 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Messages from the Dark: When the Bad Guys Write Back

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. For most users the experience of dealing with phishing emails is a solitary experience, whether they recognize that they are under attack ...

December 15, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

How One of Australia's Richest Men Lost $1 Million in Email Scam

The multi-millionaire founder of Twynam Agricultural Group Pty Ltd. lost $1 million in an email fraud, a London court heard Thursday. The British man who facilitated the theft says he’s a ...

December 6, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 Prevents Customer From Becoming Social Engineering Victim Of Duke Energy Vendor’s Hack

A customer just sent us this: "Stu, the company who processes payments for Duke Energy’s walk in payments was hacked and as a result about 375,000 bank accounts may have been stolen. "We ...

December 6, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing Schemes Are Using Encrypted Sites To Seem Legit

WIRED wrote: "A MASSIVE EFFORT to encrypt web traffic over the last few years has made green padlocks and "https" addresses increasingly common; more than half the web now uses internet ...

December 3, 2017 Stu Sjouwerman

Your Cybercrime Insurance Policy May Not Cover You For Social Engineering Fraud

I have talked about this potentially extremely expensive and very disappointing "CEO fraud" or "Business Email Compromise" problem many times before. Your cybercrime policy may not ...

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