KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #17 | April 25th, 2023 [Head Start] Effective Methods How To Teach Social Engineering to an AI Remember The Sims? Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. Well Stanford created a small virtual world with 25 ChatGPT-powered "people."

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A Don't get caught in a phishing net!

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #10 | March 7th, 2023 [Eye Opener] BusinessWeek: The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About This week, Bloomberg News pointed at a brand-new article at BusinessWeek, one of their media properties. The sooner your users learn how to spot these types of attacks, the less risk your organization could face.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 26, 2023

Small and Medium Businesses Day: Tips on Securing the Backbone of National Economies madhav Tue, 06/27/2023 - 05:46 The United Nations General Assembly designated 27 June as Micro-, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises Day to raise awareness of these businesses’ contribution to national economies.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

5, 2023 – Today, the Healey-Driscoll Administration kicked off Cybersecurity Month in Massachusetts with the announcement of $1,136,911 in funding to develop a new cybersecurity training center at MassBay Community College and support the existing center at Bridgewater State University. Worcester, Mass.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Cyber Security Awareness Month – Answering Google’s Most Commonly Asked Questions madhav Wed, 10/18/2023 - 05:25 This month is Cyber Security Awareness Month , highlighting how far security education needs to go in order to enable a secure interconnected world. Passkeys What are passkeys and how to they work?

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 | May 31st, 2023 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks With attackers knowing financial fraud-based phishing attacks are best suited for the one industry where the money is, this massive spike in attacks should both surprise you and not surprise you at all.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

Evolving privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) mean ongoing headaches for cybersecurity, compliance and risk management teams. At least 10 additional states have enacted or are considering data privacy laws. Conduct risk analysis. Educate employees.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 21, 2023

At the time of writing, the data set starts in Q2 2019 and goes up to Q2 2023. Top 3 sectors by number of accidental breaches Sector Number of accidental breaches 1 Health 1,690 2 Education 1,440 3 Local government 1,348 The table above shows the three sectors breached accidentally most often, in terms of absolute numbers.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #27 | July 5th, 2023 [Heads Up] Massive Impersonation Phishing Campaign Imitates Over 100 Brands and Thousands of Domains A year-long phishing campaign has been uncovered that impersonates 100+ popular clothing, footwear, and apparel brands using at least 10 fake domains impersonating each brand.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At the time of writing, it’s unclear whether this is related to a 2023 data breach suffered by the company, as discussed by Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt last March. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 24, 2024

It published a response to its consultation on its 2023 white paper, ‘A pro innovation approach to AI regulation ’ (the White Paper). It stresses that data protection law is risk-based; it requires these risks to be mitigated and managed via technical and organisational measures, but not necessarily completely removed.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #15 | April 11th, 2023 [The New Face of Fraud] FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency Scams The Federal Trade Commission is alerting consumers about a next-level, more sophisticated family emergency scam that uses AI which imitates the voice of a "family member in distress." There's a panicked voice on the line.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #14 | April 4th, 2023 [Eyes on the Prize] How Crafty Cons Attempted a 36 Million Vendor Email Heist The details in this thwarted VEC attack demonstrate how the use of just a few key details can both establish credibility and indicate the entire thing is a scam. Save My Spot!

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. Join us TOMORROW, Wednesday, December 7 @ 2:00 PM (ET) , for a live demo of how KnowBe4 introduces a new-school approach to security awareness training and simulated phishing. Blog post with links: [link].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Email security provider Proofpoint’s 2023 State of the Phish report reflects an ever-escalating financial loss attributed to phishing attacks but also highlights the importance of how appropriate end-user behavior greatly reduces organizational impacts arising from them.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Additionally, as fundamental parts of this complete architecture, adherence to safe API design standards and compliance with data protection laws reinforce APIs against a variety of cyber risks. Tracking APIs helps manage potential security gaps and the risk of unauthorized entry, preventing potential points of attack.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #18 | May 2nd, 2023 [Eye on AI] Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells? One risk of the AI language models is that they can be adapted to perform social engineering at scale. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. Save My Spot!

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #16 | April 18th, 2023 [Finger on the Pulse]: How Phishers Leverage Recent AI Buzz Curiosity leads people to suspend their better judgment as a new campaign of credential theft exploits a person's excitement about the newest AI systems not yet available to the general public. Take risks.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #25 | June 20th, 2023 [Fingerprints All Over] Stolen Credentials Are the No. 1 Root Cause of Data Breaches Verizon's DBIR always has a lot of information to unpack, so I'll continue my review by covering how stolen credentials play a role in attacks. Your employees are your last line of defense.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 27, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #26 | June 27th, 2023 [Eyes Open] The FTC Reveals the Latest Top Five Text Message Scams The U.S. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense. Get a look at FOUR NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #09 | February 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] Should You Click on Unsubscribe? the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act states that businesses must offer clear instructions on how the recipient can remove themselves from the involved mailing list and that request must be honored within 10 days. By Roger A. For example, in the U.S.,

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eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

By Kenneth Jones, Tanenbaum Keale LLP This article was originally published in LegalTech News on March 10, 2023. it tends to mask similar long-standing challenges, such as the adoption of predictive coding or records management programs, which reduce overall eDiscovery cost and risk.

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CILIP

MAY 15, 2023

Rebecka said: “I agree that it is very important to address AI responsibly and that common values and guidelines for how to use this powerful technology are needed. CILIP Conference Join us at CILIP Conference 2023 to hear Rebecka's keynote speech. CILIP Conference 2023 takes place on 12 and 13 July in Birmingham.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #08 | February 21st, 2023 [Heads Up] Reddit Is the Latest Victim of a Spear Phishing Attack Resulting in a Data Breach There is a lot to learn from Reddit's recent data breach, which was the result of an employee falling for a "sophisticated and highly-targeted" spear phishing attack. Thank you." - N.S.,

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

We analyze this data with advanced machine learning, extract insights and entities and without the information that we extract we provide our customers with the earliest possible indications of risk to help them better protect against cyber attacks before they actually happen. And I think we remember what was going on in 2020.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

From her talk at SecTor 2022 , Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO of Cqure , returns to The Hacker Mind and explains how a lot of little configuration errors in common Windows tools and services can open the door to persistence on a system for bad actors and what sysadmins can do to mitigate these. So basically, we deliver custom penetration tests.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

My healthcare is always going to be one again, it's a vertical healthcare and education, both where you have large amounts of very sensitive information, but not necessarily the budgets to secure it effectively. It's hard enough and the PCI Council's had to deal with the risk based approach where one size does not fit all.

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