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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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Phishing kits are the new meth labs

Phishing kits are democratizing email scams and accelerating changes in the cybersecurity threat landscape. Engaging phishing awareness training can help.

5 tips to stay vishing-proof

5 tips to stay safe from new vishing scams we're seeing on the rise and increasingly dangerous to individuals and organizations

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.

Tax Phishing—Off the Hook

Cybercriminals use tax season as an emotional trigger for phishing attacks. During this stressful time, a clever email can trick victims more easily.

Embedded Email Credential Harvesting

Email attacks are constantly mutating into more sophisticated variants. Learn about the various ways your credentials could be harvested.

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?

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.

Infographic: Which industries get hacked the most?

In a world where data moves instantly and the news-cycle is minute to minute, it is sometimes hard to get a handle on the sheer number of cybercrimes that occur. Here's an infographic to help.

10 Security Awareness Topics for Your Employees

Plan a comprehensive training program with these 10 must-included lessons for your employees.

What Is Phishing Training?

Phishing training provides employers with a solution to create awareness in their employees so they don't reveal sensitive information unintentionally. These sessions focus on improving an employee's response to phishing emails.

Cybersecurity Awareness Year in Review 2021

The Cybersecurity Awareness Year in Review 2021 covers unprecedented ransomware attacks and phishing costs, alongside record breaking cybersecurity investment

Cybersecurity Month: TreeSolution's 5 tips on cybersecurity

5 cybersecurity tips from TreeSolution Consulting, a global leader and pioneer in cybersecurity consulting.

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 a Human Firewall? Examples, Strategies + Training Tips

Empower your team to be a human firewall. Discover how training, vigilance, and smart habits protect against cyber threats.

How Yu-kai Chou's Gamification Framework Revolutionized Security Awareness Training

Here's how integrating Yu-kai Chou's Octalysis Gamification and Behavioral Design Framework into cybersecurity training can dramatically improve user engagement and resilience.

Attack Simulation Training: Hoxhunt vs Microsoft Defender

Wondering which attack simulation training is best for your team? Get a full breakdown of Hoxhunt vs. Microsoft Defender to make an informed decision.

How to Influence Security Behaviors: Insights from "The Human Element" Webinar Series

Maxime Cartier recaps the webinar series, "The Human Element: The Science Behind Influencing Security Behaviors" and key learnings of the intricacies of human behavior in reducing cybersecurity risk.

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

Infographic: Gamification in the workplace

Gamification helps the end user understand that their actions matter, and that every click they make can have an effect.

Postal service and package delivery phishing

Postal service and package delivery phishing are extremely common - both in the workplace and among personal emails. Learn how attackers use these emails.

Quarantine phishing emails

In quarantine phishing emails, attackers notify victims that an important message is in quarantine and they need to take action to release it.

Financially motivated cyber attacks on executives is on the rise

In cybercrime, financial gain is still the primary driver and attacks are increasingly targeting C-level. Learn how to protect employees from criminals.

Office 365 Credential Phishing

Lazy Office 365 credential phishing attacks can bind us from recognizing seriously dangerous ones. See a few examples where things can go south.

Why 20% of GitLab’s Employees Failed the Phishing Test - Hoxhunt

GitLab recent phishing test, in which 20% of its employees failed shows how people vulnerable to phishing even when they have received some training.

Five COVID-19 Threats & How to Prepare For Them

Attackers are usitilizing the global pandemic COVID-19 for phishing campaigns. See 5 examples and how you can deliver phishing simulations around the virus.

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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