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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Issues List of Office 365 Security Vulnerabilities and Best Practices

The latest Analysis Report covers both areas of concern around Office 365 configurations that impact security, and offers up some simple recommendations to shore up vulnerabilities.

$1,170 Is How Much You're Worth On The Dark Web

The Benzinga site had a good short summary of the current price lists for stolen data on the dark web. "According to the Dark Web Market Price Index released by the independent VPN review ...

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Updated June 17, 2026

KnowBe4 Rockets To No 96 On the Inc. 500, Appearing For The Third Time. Stu Takes A CakeDive

Today, we celebrated two milestones in-one:

Surface Web vs. Deep Web vs. Dark Web: Differences Explained

These three terms are often a source of confusion, especially in connection with cybercrime and where that comes from.

Yes, that email is really from LinkedIn. Yes, it's really malicious.

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Several months ago threat researchers at Proofpoint made a startling discovery : the bad guys had figured out a way to turn Paypal itself ...

The 7 Levels Of Hackers

Eric Chabrow over at the Government Info Security blog found an interesting post by Stuart Coulson, who is a director of a hosting provider in the U.K. Coulson wrote a somewhat longish ...

Crelan Bank Loses 75.8 Million Dollars In CEO Fraud

The Belgian Crelan Bank was the victim of a 70 million euro (75.8M U.S.) fraud that was launched from another country. They claim this CEO Fraud was discovered during an internal audit ...

How To Create Strong, Complex Passwords to Protect Your Organization

First, some best practices: Enable phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA) whenever possible If you can, use a password manager and protect it with MFA and/or a long ...