Cyber Security Articles & News

KnowBe4 Announces Free Phish Alert for G Suite

New functionality offered at no-charge to fight rising threats of phishing and ransomware and shore up the “weakest link in security: users

Howard County fights back against ransomware after attack

A ransomware attack on the Howard County government last month affected more files than officials first realized and has led to an all-out effort to fight the encryption malware.

KnowBe4 Aims to Take a Bite out of CEO Fraud Cash Cow

KnowBe4, provider of the world’s most popular security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today introduced Phishing Reply Tracking to help IT managers more effectively combat CEO Fraud, one of the fastest growing social engineering schemes. Phishing Reply Tracking is designed to test whether users will interact with “the bad guys” on the other end of a phishing email. CEO fraud, or Business Email Compromise (BEC) as it is referred to by the FBI, has been steadily gaining steam since January 2015, costing the economy over 3 billion dollars, according to the FBI’s Internet Complaint Center (IC3).

KnowBe4 Research Shows Eighty-Two Percent of Email Servers are Misconfigured

KnowBe4, provider of the world’s most popular integrated new-school security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, analyzed more than 10,000 email servers and identified that eighty-two percent of them are misconfigured, allowing spoofed emails to enter an organization disguised as coming from a company’s own domain.

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Cybercrime and Money – Cause and Effect

“Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.” – Kevin Mitnick

WATCH - Kevin Mitnick demonstrates how easy it is for a hacker read your email messages

Kevin Mitnick demonstrates how easy it is for a hacker to tap into your network and read your email messages, even if it’s a fiber optic network.