Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This blog explains how awareness, behavior testing and simulations can help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity culture and manage human risks. Who Are 'Death Clickers,' and How Do They Weaken Company's Cyber Defense? Employees who repeatedly click on malicious links or "death clickers" are a risk to an organization's cybersecurity.

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KnowBe4

JULY 9, 2024

Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 17, 2025

Social engineering and phishing are involved in 70% - 90% of data breaches. No other root cause of malicious hacking (e.g., unpatched software and firmware, eavesdropping, cryptography attacks, physical theft, etc.) comes close.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

” To defend against ransomware campaign like this one, NJCCIC provided the following recommendations: Security Awareness Training : Engage in security awareness training to enhance defense mechanisms and recognize potential signs of malicious communications. All associated emails were blocked or quarantined.”

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Vista's $24-Per-Share Bid Comes 17 Months After Security Awareness Firm Went Public Vista Equity Partners has joined Thoma Bravo in the take-private cybersecurity spree, offering to buy security awareness training behemoth KnowBe4 at a $4.22 billion valuation.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

Addressing evolving threats With the rise of AI-driven phishing attacks, security awareness training needs to go beyond traditional models. Providing scalable, high-quality security awareness This feature ensures large-scale, adaptable phishing simulations to help employees detect and respond to emerging threats.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Two days later, the employees were informed by email of the ongoing security test, the message received by the ones that opened the email states: “You’re getting this email because you failed our recent phishing test,” the company’s chief security officer Demetrius Comeswrote.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 23, 2024

KnowBe4 is a big believer in focusing on decreasing human risk as the best way to decrease cybersecurity risk in most environments.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 14, 2024

Based on news cycles within cybersecurity, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that threats only come from certain parts of the world or that they only target specific industries. However, the reality is that cyber attacks know no borders, and no organisation is immune.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 5, 2025

Recently, Dr. Martin J.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But to ensure that all staff truly take note of security and apply the knowledge gained from any staff awareness training , security should be embedded in your organisation’s culture. In other words, you should aim to build a ‘security culture’. In this blog What is a security culture?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

Also, because employees tend to be the most abundant security weakness in any organization, instituting some kind of continuing security awareness training for all employees is a good idea.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. Create security awareness for employees. One of the most important ways to protect against data breaches is to increase employee security awareness.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We’re thrilled to announce the long-awaited sixth season of the award-winning KnowBe4 Original Series - “The Inside Man” is now available in the KnowBe4 ModStore!

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are only making the ongoing problem of social engineering worse.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Lack of security awareness and education. Often, employees within organizations lack sufficient security awareness and education. Promote security awareness and education among employees. Conduct regular security testing and code reviews. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It's October, the cyber-security awareness month and Facebook simply wants to make us aware of the cyber-security problems of the BGP protocol. This is what it looked like to @Cloudflare. pic.twitter.com/PFw5FR2W5j — John Graham-Cumming (@jgrahamc) October 4, 2021. Relax everyone.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Without having to know the characteristics of the infrastructure in advance, as an alternative or in conjunction with the security audit, a penetration test can be implemented to simulate an attack from outside the network. Security awareness.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 10, 2024

New analysis of ransomware attacks shows that phishing is the primary delivery method and organizations need to offer more effective security awareness training to mitigate the threat.

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KnowBe4

MAY 8, 2024

KnowBe4 is proud to be recognized by TrustRadius for our Security Awareness Training and PhishER platforms.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

The company is also updating security policies, migrating some systems to the cloud, and requiring additional security awareness training. As a result of the incident, OmniVision implemented more monitoring solutions to detect suspicious activity and prevent recurrence.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2024

More than a quarter (26%) of organizations around the world provide no security awareness training for their employees, according to a survey by Hornetsecurity. The researchers found that smaller companies in particular tend to lack security training programs.

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KnowBe4

AUGUST 19, 2024

Recently, we had a customer reach out to ask if disabling clickable uniform resource locator (URL) links in emails was enough protection by itself to potentially not need employee security awareness training and simulated phishing.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 22, 2025

Exploring New Ways to Deliver and Measure Cybersecurity Awareness Programs Regulations like GDPR, HIPAA and CMMC have made security awareness training a staple of corporate security programs. Organizations face an even deeper challenge: influencing employee behavior in ways that create a truly secure workplace.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Due to the lack of security awareness of the developers, there are security risks in the entire update process. The client compares the version of the update program without doing any other security checks.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When you think of KnowBe4, you might immediately picture phishing simulations, password security modules, or other security awareness training topics.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

KnowBe4, the leading platform for security awareness training , is excited to bring the award-winning original series, "The Inside Man,” back to your screens with more excitement, drama, and cybersecurity lessons than ever before.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Security awareness and policies are essential, but without substantial investment in security, network analysis, regular security audits and collaboration with researchers like the Citizen Lab these cases would not have been detected.” ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

IBM shared the following tips to prevent Raspberry Robin infections: Implement security awareness training. Search for the IOCs in your environment. Install/Deploy EDR monitoring solutions. Leverage your EDR solution to disable or track USB devices connections. Disable the AutoRun feature in the Windows operating system settings.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Emma Leith stressed the importance of security awareness and the importance of regular training for internal personnel. The only way to p revent this kind of p hysical intrusions that exploit human factor and social engineering is to implement a cultural change.

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KnowBe4

AUGUST 27, 2024

As I sit in the 2024 Seattle Convene conference this week and listen to speaker after speaker talk about their successful security awareness training programs, one thing is perfectly clear. This blog was co-written by Perry Carpenter and Roger A. They all prefer carrots and fewer sticks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. In addition, the report highlights the threats, trends, and key takeaways of threats observed and reported into 0xSI_f33d.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. In addition, the report highlights the threats, trends, and key takeaways of threats observed and reported into 0xSI_f33d.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. In addition, the report highlights the threats, trends, and key takeaways of threats observed and reported into 0xSI_f33d.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, unfortunately, show that the vast majority of organizations do little to no security awareness training. The average organization, if it does security awareness training, does it once annually, likely as part of a compliance program.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2024

Security awareness training (SAT) and simulated phishing works to significantly reduce cybersecurity risk. We have the data, customer testimonials and government recommendations to prove it.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

Having a hawk-eyed view on the cybersecurity threat landscape, market-shifts, and hacktivism activities, Kanishk is a community member of the Nasscom and corporate contributor at many technology magazines and security awareness platforms. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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