Is it a Phish? Halloween Edition

Is it a Phish? Halloween Edition

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To wrap up our Cyber Security Awareness Month activities we’re bringing back a crowd favorite, Is it a Phish? And since it’s Halloween, we, of course, had to find the scariest, most terrifying phishing examples we could drum up for our very special guest, T Rex ... Read More
Meet the Cyber Security Awareness Team: Dane

Meet the Cyber Security Awareness Team: Dane

In our ongoing contributions to Cyber Security Awareness Month today we’re launching a two-part series designed to introduce you to some of our team. For those who have been fortunate (unfortunate) enough to be on the receiving end of one of our phishing simulations, interacted with our microlearning modules, or ... Read More
Meet the Cyber Security Awareness Team: Kimber

Meet the Cyber Security Awareness Team: Kimber

In our ongoing contributions to Cyber Security Awareness Month today we’re launching a two-part series designed to introduce you to some of our team. For those who have been fortunate (unfortunate) enough to be on the receiving end of one of our phishing simulations, interacted with our microlearning modules, or ... Read More
15 Years of Cybersecurity Awareness Month

15 Years of Cybersecurity Awareness Month

https://info.phishlabs.com/what_is_the_cost_of_a_phishing_attack_phishing_susceptibility_modelEach year in the month of October there are more things to be cognizant of than ghosts and ghouls, in fact something far scarier. That’s right, Cyber Security Awareness month is back, and with it our team is bringing you some new and updated resources ... Read More
Targeting the Brand: Your C-Suite May Be at Risk

Targeting the Brand: Your C-Suite May Be at Risk

Social media is impacting the world around us. Most organizations have social media accounts, cloud-based drives, access cloud platforms, are filled with employees who use messengers like Slack, and tap into any other piece of the ever expanding digital world. Because of the growth rate of each of these types ... Read More
Defining and Managing Success for Security Teams

Defining and Managing Success for Security Teams

Big or small, global or local, almost every organization uses some form of technology, and therefore has security needs within it. Due to the nature of the work and variables in play, metrics and success are often a subjective matter from organization to organization ... Read More
Phishing and Social Media, Will it Over Take Email?

Phishing and Social Media, Will it Over Take Email?

Each year in our Phishing Trends and Intelligence (PTI) report our team highlights the continued growth and impact email-based phishing attacks continue to have on brands and people around the globe. In following these trends, email-based attacks are still steadily growing in numbers; however, this begs the question of what ... Read More
How To Write Social Media Policies Designed to Reduce Digital Risks

How To Write Social Media Policies Designed to Reduce Digital Risks

Most organizations already have policies and procedures in place to encourage your employees to act in a professional manner while at work. But in our modern connected age, social media makes it easier than ever for anyone tied to your brand to be a vocal representation of who you are ... Read More
Beyond Digital: How Social Media Can Lead to Physical Threats Towards Brands

Beyond Digital: How Social Media Can Lead to Physical Threats Towards Brands

It’s like something straight out of a bad action film: someone slips information on Twitter stating that they are planning a bank robbery or threaten an organization with a bomb ... Read More
Understanding Why Spear Phish Are Highly Effective

Understanding Why Spear Phish Are Highly Effective

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In the Oscar-winning movie The Sting, Harry Gondorff (played by Paul Newman) explains to his apprentice Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) that the con that they set up must be so convincing that their mark, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) won’t even realize that he’s been taken ... Read More