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What is Quishing? Ultimate QR Code Phishing Prevention Guide

How quishing is being used in attacks, what these threats look like in the wild and best practices for avoiding them.

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Gamified Cyber Security Training: Everything You Need to Know

Gamified cyber security training is a scientifically proven method to boost user engagement and motivate them to change behavior and build cyber skills continuously.

10 Steps to Award-Winning Cybersecurity Training: The AES CSO50 Playbook

Discover the 10 steps to an award-winning cybersecurity training program by AES and Hoxhunt. Learn how they transformed their security awareness culture.

Level up Your Security Awareness to the Max With Kinsek

Kinsek and Hoxhunt Are Helping Australian Organisations Manage Their Human Risk and Foster a Security Culture To Empower People Towards Cyber Resilience.

Human Risk Reduction Is the Cybersecurity Metric That Transformed My Budget

When Maxime Cartier showed increased threat-reporting behavior, leadership increased his awareness training budget.

Advertisers Beware—How Scammers Are Getting Into Your Ad Accounts

From Spear-Phishing, to Credential Harvesting, To Possible Ad Fraud. Keep Reading To Find Out How This Story Unfolded and How You Can Avoid Getting Caught.

Measuring True Risk is the key to unlocking human risk management and cybersecurity behavior change

The differences between old school awareness training and modern security behavior change are revealed in measuring true risk managing human risk

ISO/IEC 27001 compliance and cybersecurity awareness training

This article focuses on how cybersecurity awareness training helps entities achieve and maintain ISO/IEC 27001 compliance under ongoing audits

Guide to the DoD Phishing Awareness Challenge: 9 key takeaways

This guide to the DoD Phishing Awareness Challenge gives 9 key takeaways from the training to help determine if it’s right for you and your organization

Positive, Not Punitive Cybersecurity Awareness Training

Positive phishing awareness training lowers data breach risk and builds cybersecurity culture; CISOs are moving on from traditional punitive models.

A guide to effective phishing training

Phishing training can be an effective tool in building a human firewall to shield your company from phishing attacks targeting employees.

12 ways how attackers crack your password

When your password is not long and complicated enough, attackers can easily hack it. See what methods they use and how you can protect yourself.

Phishing Simulation Best Practices: Communicate Value to Employees

To make sure that your employees are willingly participating in your phishing training, you need to communicate to them why they should do it.

Cyber Insurance and Security Awareness Training

Why cyber insurance needs human risk management platforms and so do you

How to Prevent Phishing: Ultimate Playbook for CISOs

Your ultimate guide on how to prevent phishing. Everything you need to know to implement best practices and set up training that measurably reduces risk.

Spam vs Phishing: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Employees

Your ultimate guide to spam vs phishing. What the differences are, how to recognize them and all of the practical measures you can take to keep your organization safe.

What is an SOC Report? And Does your Organization Need One?

What is an SOC report? What are the different types of SOC reports available? How do you obtain one? Your questions answered.

How to Reduce Human Risk: Best Practices for Security Teams

We'll look into the behaviors to watch out for, how to assess risk and all the strategies you need to tangibly reduce human risk across your organization.

The difference between a security awareness manager and a human risk manager

The Human Risk Manager controls the process of identifying, evaluating, and mitigating the cybersecurity risks associated with people. 

What is behavioural cybersecurity?

Practice makes perfect. Especially when something as important as cybersecurity is on the line.

Are phishing tests enough to measure resilience? - Hoxhunt

Infrequent phishing tests are still popular for measuring an organization's resiliency. Are they good enough or do you need to step up your training game?

One Click Away From Disaster: Why Cybersec Behavior Matters

Without practice, people won’t know what to do with a dangerous email. Through continuous training, you can reinforce the right behavior in cybersecurity.

A Guide to Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Your Employees

Today, cybersecurity awareness training for your employees should be just as important as defense technology. Learn how to train your employees better.

TikTok Phishing Link in Emails: What Security Teams Need to Know

TikTok's open redirection vulnerability is being used in phishing emails. Here's what we know and how to prevent successful attacks.

Deepfake Attacks: How to Keep Your Business Safe (+ Examples)

Your ultimate guide to deepfake attacks to keep your organization safe. Includes video examples and case studies.

10 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Ideas Proven to Engage Employees (+ Why it Actually Matters)

Looking for genuinely engaging Cybersecurity Awareness Month ideas? Here are some of the best ones we've collected over the years here at Hoxhunt.

What is Quishing? Ultimate QR Code Phishing Prevention Guide

How quishing is being used in attacks, what these threats look like in the wild and best practices for avoiding them.

Invoice Fraud: How to Identify Fake Invoices (9 Simple Steps)

Your guide to the kinds of threats out there, what to look out for and the measures you can take to prevent invoice fraud.

The 10 Phishing Red Flags Your Employees Need to Know (2024)

Here are the 10 major phishing red flags that your employees should already be aware of.

Report: SaaS permissions leave huge amounts of data exposed

Your SaaS suite is leaving your backdoor open. Here's how to fix it.

Log4J Log4Shell vulnerability explained

Log4J Log4Shell vulnerability explained to help you understand what it is and how to stay protected

Default Guest settings Azure AD

A security vulnerability was recently reported in the default guest permissions of Microsoft Azure Active Directory. Here’s how to fix it and stay safe from attackers.

External email warning banner phish

This phishing email was sent from outside the organization but is replacing the Caution! External Sender banner with a safe sender banner.

Update regarding the Apple iOS Mail App Vulnerability

Apple just recently confirmed the most significant vulnerability in iOS history after ZecOps made a public announcement about their discovery of a security flaw.

iOS Mail App Security Flaw

According to security researchers, the iOS mail app, which is the email client that can be found on most Apple iPhones and iPads, has a severe security flaw making it vulnerable to attacks.

Social Engineering Training Explained (Essential Guide)

Your ultimate guide to the process behind social engineering training and all of the tips and know-how you need to ensure your training successfully changes behavior.

Advertisers Beware—How Scammers Are Getting Into Your Ad Accounts

From Spear-Phishing, to Credential Harvesting, To Possible Ad Fraud. Keep Reading To Find Out How This Story Unfolded and How You Can Avoid Getting Caught.

Social engineers are targeting social media accounts

We're seeing an uptick in social engineers targeting social media accounts

The good, the bad, and the ugly about browser fingerprinting

Now that cookies are on their way out, a much sneakier way of identifying you is on its way in.

This '90s internet throwback is the latest hacking trend

Years later, pop-ups are back, this time serving a different purpose... stealing your info.

How to prevent crypto wallet phishing

The more digital money you make, the more digital problems you get. Here's some tips to keep your crypto wallet safe.

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