Cyber Security Articles & News

KnowBe4 Warns Organizations of Antivirus Giving False Sense of Security

Nearly every organization has some type of concern about ransomware as it continues to hit epic proportions of infections. Profits are soaring for the authors and those spreading it as costs reach $1 billion. Why is it continuing to grow despite precautionary efforts by IT managers? 

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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).

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