Webroot Spots NATO Job Apps Lead To Malware

May 26, 2013 10:35:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This one qualifies as a Scam Of The Week and it's a good one to forward to your employees.

0-Day Threats and Security Awareness

May 23, 2013 10:34:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Walmart.com

May 17, 2013 9:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wal-Mart took special effort this week and warned customers of an unusually 'high quality' phishing email that tries to get personal and credit information. They stated on their corporate ...

Facebook 'Fraud-as-a-Service' Promoted Via Google

May 14, 2013 10:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may have read CyberheistNews Vol 3, #19, which had 'Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream' as its headline. Here is a follow up on that. You can now download apps that hack Facebook, and ...

Twitter Warning: "We Believe That These Attacks Will Continue"

May 1, 2013 5:14:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Consumer Reports: 9.2 Million Phishing Victims Last Year

May 1, 2013 4:58:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Consumer Reports today came out with some numbers that should give you pause. 9.2 Million Americans fell victim to a phishing attack last year, and a whopping 58.2 Million had a malware ...

Why We Need Security Awareness Training Programs

Apr 30, 2013 11:09:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

$1Million Cyberheist From Leavenworth Hospital

Apr 27, 2013 3:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Mitnick sent me an article that illustrates why it is needed to train all employees not to fall for hacker tricks: "Friday, April 26, 2013 - WENATCHEE — Hackers stole more than $1 ...

10 Tips To Secure Funding For A Security Program

Apr 21, 2013 3:54:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Over at the CSO site, Dominic Nessi, CIO for Los Angeles World Airports, outlines ten essential tips for getting your financial team on board with your security funding requests.

Phishing Confusion Example

Apr 7, 2013 12:42:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

So, yesterday I received this email from my Identity Theft Provider. Been with them since 2008 so I know how their emails look. Normally I get the "all clear" signal once a month, but ...

Knowbe4 - CyberheistNews Vol 3, #14

Apr 3, 2013 3:48:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing

Mar 21, 2013 7:42:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Automated Twitter DM Spear Phishing. It was to be expected. Cyber criminals now are able to scrape your followers from Twitter, and send you a Direct Message (DM) supposedly coming from ...

Georgia Tech Researchers Try To Stop Spear-phishing

Mar 18, 2013 7:23:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Georgia Tech correctly identified that the most challenging threat facing corporate networks today is “spear phishing.” “Spear phishing is the most popular way to get into a corporate ...

Osterman Blogs About KnowBe4

Feb 25, 2013 5:50:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Highly regarded IT Analyst Mike Osterman wrote: "Most will agree that despite the enormous amounts spent on secure Web gateways, anti-virus software, cloud-based malware filtering and the ...

PDF 0-day Vulnerability Being Exploited In The Wild

Feb 21, 2013 2:28:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Last week, Adobe warned customers that a few new exploits that target Acrobat Reader were being exploited in the wild. Keep an eye out for patches that are expected soon. The exploits are ...

Which Antivirus Has The Best Phishing Protection? Surprise!

Feb 19, 2013 6:16:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I ran across some very interesting research recently done by NSS Labs. They compared twelve of the most popular antivirus engines, they call them endpoint protection products (EPP) and ...

Feb SANS Monthly Awareness Video

Feb 6, 2013 2:55:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may be familiar with our friends at SANS. For their 'Securing The Human' team, every month is security awareness month, same as here at KnowBe4. On the first of every month they post ...

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 ...

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 ...

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