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[CASE STUDY] New-school Approach to Training and Simulated Phishing Shines Over Traditional LMS

KnowBe4

based enterprise manufacturing organization cut their Phish-prone Percentage™ (PPP) by more than 80% after five months using the KnowBe4 security awareness training and simulated phishing platform.

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Microsoft’s case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days

Security Affairs

Microsoft shared details of the Emotet attack suffered by an organization named Fabrikam in the Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART ) Case Report 002 , where Fabrikam is a fake name the IT giant gave the victim. “We are glad to share the DART Case Report 002: Full Operational Shutdown. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 258

Security Affairs

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. addresses two zero-days exploited in the wild Microsofts case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days New Coronavirus-themed campaign spread Lokibot worldwide. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 258 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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RSA Conference 2023: Meet Thales Where the World Talks Security!

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

RSA Conference 2023: Meet Thales Where the World Talks Security! Meet us at Booth #N-5369 for demonstrations on data security, customer and workforce identity, and post quantum cryptography – just to name a few. Security teams must build quantum resilience today to protect their business from emerging risks.

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5 best online cyber security training courses and certifications in 2020

IT Governance

With the coronavirus pandemic keeping us stuck inside and struggling to find ways to remain productive, now might be the perfect time to take an online cyber security training course. Let’s take a look at five of the best online courses for cyber security. Certified Cyber Security Foundation Training Course.

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Emotat Malware Causes Physical Damage

Schneier on Security

The Emotet payload was delivered and executed on the systems of Fabrikam -- a fake name Microsoft gave the victim in their case study -- five days after the employee's user credentials were exfiltrated to the attacker's command and control (C&C) server. I can't find any information on what kind of attachment.

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Google's Data on Login Thefts

Schneier on Security

This is interesting research and data: With Google accounts as a case-study, we teamed up with the University of California, Berkeley to better understand how hijackers attempt to take over accounts in the wild. billion credentials exposed by third-party breaches. The report.