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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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How Employee-first Awareness Training Boosts Your Defenses

When you use an employee-first security awareness training, your employees will more willingly participate in the training. Learn how that boosts defenses.

Get Leadership Support To Invest in a Phishing Training Program

Build a winning business case to gain leadership support so that you can invest in people-first phishing training. Learn now.

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.

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.

How human error impacts human risk in cybersecurity?

Understanding how and why people make errors is the first step to planning on how to address and eliminate human risk. Learn more about human risk.

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.

Why Organizations Need Positive Cybersec Culture & Training

A positive approach to cybersecurity can change people's feelings on the mandatory security awareness training. Learn why building a positive culture is a must.

Employees' false sense of security: Why is it a problem?

Are your employees overconfident on how to spot a phish? Can the cybersecurity department will protect them from everything? Change this perception.

Wield Employee Power With Continuous Security Awareness Training

Continuous security awereness training helps to keep your employees on their toes so that they can recognize and report attacks in time.

4 Steps to a Fully Automated Security Awareness Program

Manually sending phishing simulations to your employees doesn’t work. Learn how automation can help to boost your security training.

How Employee-first Awareness Training Boosts Your Defenses

When you use an employee-first security awareness training, your employees will more willingly participate in the training. Learn how that boosts defenses.

Comparing Employee Security Engagement and Awareness Trainings

Most companies have been using cybersecurity awareness training to educate employees, but does awareness training really work?

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.

Spear Phishing vs Phishing (No-Nonsense Guide)

Think you know everything about spear-phishing vs phishing? Here's the different techniques and prevention measures you need to know to prevent both kinds of attacks.

Whaling Phishing: What It Is, Examples, and Prevention Tips

Learn how to protect your organization from whaling phishing. Understand how attacks target executives, spot warning signs, and implement best practices to prevent breaches.

Credential Harvesting Explained: How to Detect & Prevent It

Learn what credential harvesting is, how to detect phishing attacks, and protect your organization from credential theft.

Clone Phishing: Here's What You Need to Know To Protect Your Organization

Your essential guide to clone phishing. Real-world examples, prevention tactics, and actionable strategies to safeguard your organization.

Latest Scams: Phishing Emails Posing as Alerts

"Unusual activity in your account": Cybercriminals are taking advantage of your relationship with trusted companies by sending clone phishing emails that warn you of potential phishing scams.

Cybersecurity Glossary: Phishing Edition

Hoxhunt's Cybersecurity Glossary is here to help you navigate the terminology around phishing and cybersecurity.

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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