KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2024

In an age when 70% - 90% of successful data breaches involve social engineering (which gets past all other defenses), sufficient training is needed to best reduce human-side cybersecurity risk. Everyone should be trained in how to recognize social engineering attempts, how to mitigate (i.e., delete, ignore, etc.)

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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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA – July 13, 2023 – Security Journey, a best-in-class application security education company, has today announced an acceleration of its secure coding training platform enhancements. Additional Pre-built and Customizable Learning Paths – including multiple training formats to drive engagement.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 21, 2022

Huntress evaluated seven companies with security training tools and chose Curricula for its ease of use, manageability for smaller customers and enjoyable online learning experience.

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Education Security IT 245

Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2022

Oz Alashe, CEO of CybSafe, Discusses New Approaches to Changing User Behavior A great deal of awareness training has been offered to users - including phishing simulations - but none of it seems to have led to a significant change in their poor security behaviors and decision-making skills, says Oz Alashe, CEO of CybSafe.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies provide intriguing opportunities for immersive and interactive experiences in cybersecurity training. Related: GenAI’ impact on DevSecOps Here’s how these technologies can bridge learning gaps in cybersecurity awareness and enhance the overall training experience.

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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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Security awareness Phishing Security IT 81

Data Breach Today

JULY 18, 2020

IBM: Videos Detail Attacks on US Navy and State Department Personnel An Iranian-backed hacking group appears to have accidentally left over 40 GB of training videos and other material exposed online, according to researchers with IBM who found the unprotected server. The material includes videos detailing attacks aimed at U.S.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 2, 2024

The US State Department is training diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, telecommunications, and other technology issues, allowing them to advance US policy abroad.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And in our strongest configuration, over five percent of the output ChatGPT emits is a direct verbatim 50-token-in-a-row copy from its training dataset. This happens rather often when running our attack. Lots of details at the link and in the paper.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Meta announced it is postponing the training of its large language models using public content from adult Facebook and Instagram users in the EU. “The DPC welcomes the decision by Meta to pause its plans to train its large language model using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram across the EU/EEA.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 2, 2024

But every person and organization can benefit by more frequent security awareness training (SAT). Every person and organization is different and requires slightly different methods and ways of learning.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We discussed advances in cybersecurity training that combine timely content and targeted training to combat the latest phishing campaigns. Timely, effective security training of all employees clearly must continue to be part of the regimen of defending modern business networks, even more so as cloud migration accelerates.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2024

Brazil’s data protection authority temporarily banned Meta from using data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence. Human Rights Watch recently published a report revealing that LAION-5B, a major image-text dataset used for training AI models, includes identifiable photos of Brazilian children.

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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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When you think of KnowBe4, you probably think of phishing training, good password hygiene modules, security awareness, or maybe even data protection compliance such as GDPR.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With a two-pronged approach, the group trains its hackers in penetration testing, only to set them free to build a marketplace for pen-testing services.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

Turns out that it’s easy to broadcast radio commands that force Polish trains to stop: …the saboteurs appear to have sent simple so-called “radio-stop” commands via radio frequency to the trains they targeted. “It is three tonal messages sent consecutively. “Everybody could do this.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

With proper training, employees can prevent these attacks before they happen. While the protection of the company’s assets can never be completely guaranteed, security awareness training should be a top priority for business owners. Provide frequent training about the risks of cyberattacks. Change passwords regularly.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Researchers devised an attack technique that could have been used to trick ChatGPT into disclosing training data. A team of researchers from several universities and Google have demonstrated an attack technique against ChetGPT that allowed them to extract several megabytes of ChatGPT’s training data. ” continues the analysis.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Security awareness training (SAT) works! A well-designed security awareness training campaign will significantly reduce cybersecurity risk.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Startup Wants to Add More Cloud, Defender-Related Material to Its Training Platform Hack The Box has completed a Series B funding round to add more cloud security and a gamification approach to its cybersecurity training platform.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

Agency Prepares $1.7M Contracts for Synthetic Data Prototypes In a solicitation for synthetic data generators, the U.S. federal government is looking for a machine that can generate fake data for real-world scenarios, such as identifying cybersecurity threats.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

At the end of October, a cyber attack caused the trains to stop in Denmark, the attack hit a third-party IT service provider. A cyber attack caused training the trains operated by DSB to stop in Denmark the last weekend, threat actors hit a third-party IT service provider. DSB is the largest train operating company in Denmark.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 1, 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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Security awareness Phishing Security IT 92

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. If OpenAI are training on data that they said they wouldn’t train on, or if Facebook are spying on us through our phone’s microphones, they should be hauled in front of regulators and/or sued into the ground.

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Privacy GDPR Risk Government 109

KnowBe4

JANUARY 4, 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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Security awareness Phishing Security IT 95

OpenText Information Management

MARCH 19, 2024

OpenText™ Learning Services is here to help you increase your skills, raise your profile at work and take the stress out of planning your training schedule with guaranteed to run classes. You’ve been approved to take some training. You know you want training delivered by a subject matter expert within a certain time period.

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CILIP

JUNE 28, 2024

Applications are welcome from individuals, organisations and/or institutions, in what is the third and final phase of the Anti-Racist Library Collections: A Training Plan for Public Libraries in Wales project. The training will enable librarians to confidently shape and share library collections along clear anti-racist principles.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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 31, 2024

Linking compliance training to specific outcomes is hard. Compliance training has a reputation for being challenging for organizations to offer, difficult to do right and employees are not engaged.

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Compliance 87

KnowBe4

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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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Security awareness Phishing Security IT 97

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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KnowBe4

APRIL 16, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the latest G2 Grid Report that compares security awareness training (SAT) vendors based on user reviews, customer satisfaction, popularity and market presence.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2022

Individuals and organizations can now fill these skill gaps through online, self-paced training and short-term programs that give people the technical skills, hands-on experience and certifications they need to successfully serve in cyber roles. Today, there are more paths into cybersecurity than ever. Rethinking the talent game.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With a vast amount of technology training and education available today, it’s difficult to know what deserves your attention and what’s just a marketing ploy. This naturally reduces the effectiveness of the training. One aspect that is often overlooked is the importance of high-quality training.

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