Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
I'm reading "Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare" by Thomas Rid and wanted to share this story with you which was new to me! It's warmly ...
With tax season just around the corner, this simple, yet effective social engineering theme is perfect to get users to respond to phishing attacks exactly the way the bad guys want.
Recently Cyber Defense Magazine released the top 100 cybersecurity books and the top recommended book is one of our Top Faves as well.
We are excited to announce the availability of KnowBe4’s new localization options for the Admin Console and Learner Experience. You can now set your default language for three ...
Microsoft is still the most impersonated brand for phishing campaigns, according to researchers at Vade Secure. The security firm spotted 30,621 unique Microsoft-related phishing URLs in ...
Pretending to be security researchers themselves, this group of cybercriminals went to great lengths to make sure legitimate security researchers would fall for the attack.
The Conversation just published something I have been worried about for a while now. Scary? Could be getting that way sometime soon. They said: "Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning ...
Spear phishing emails remain a top attack vector for the bad guys, yet most companies still don’t have an effective strategy to stop them.
You have to look at the totality of an email to determine whether it is a phishing attack or not.
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK recently sent a warning that cybercriminals are using social engineering tactics to target people wanting a COVID-19 vaccine email that is ...
Google has found that most phishing attacks (42%) target Gmail users in the US. Users in the UK were the second most targeted, with 10% of attacks. Japan came in third with 5% of phishing ...
This new phishing scam takes advantage of inherent trust in credible domains to get past the scrutiny of even Microsoft to trick Office 365 users into giving up their online credentials.
Australian medicinal cannabis company Cann Group has lost $3.6 million in a business email compromise (BEC) attack, Stockhead reports. The company had thought it was paying an unnamed ...
We’re excited to announce Season 3 of the award-winning KnowBe4 Original Series - ‘The Inside Man’. This network-quality video training series delivers an entertaining learning experience ...
You surf the world wide web, you scroll through social media feeds, read articles, shop online, and respond to email through the incredible invention of the internet. We're all driving on ...
The three best things you can do to improve your computer security, bar anything, have been the same three things you should have already been doing for the entirety of computers. The top ...
Employees are an essential component of an organization’s security defenses, according to Nico Popp, Chief Product Officer at Forcepoint. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, Popp ...
Researchers at HackNotice have found that the number of data breaches is increasing, while the number of breach notifications is declining, SecurityWeek reports. HackNotice analyzed ...
Social engineering and phishing happen when a con artist communicates a fraudulent message pretending to be a person or organization which a potential victim might trust in order to get ...
A phishing campaign is using convincingly spoofed offers for COVID-19 vaccination sign-ups, according to Tom Allen at Computing. As vaccines are now being distributed around the world, ...
