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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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Hoxhunt Reviews: What Customers Are Saying (Nov 2024)

Here's what real Hoxhunt customers say about the platform. A deep dive into simulations, reporting, quality of support and more.

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.

Top 5 KnowBe4 Competitors You Should Know About (Nov 2024)

The top KnowBe4 competitors to consider for security awareness and phishing training. Compare features, personalization, analytics, and more to make the right choice for your organization.

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.

19 Compliance Frameworks Requiring Security Awareness Training

A complete overview of major standards and regulations that require awareness training. Identify the most common standards, regulations, and frameworks that require security awareness programs.

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.

End User Security Training: Best Practices and Strategies

Everything you need to know about end user security training. Why its necessary, what training looks like and how to quantify cyber risks.

Reach every employee to reduce human cyber-risk

Reach and engage every employee with security awareness training to minimize human risk in your organization. It's time to move from compliance to a security behavior change and culture program.

NIS 2 Compliance CISO / Executive Primer

The NIS 2 Compliance CISO / Executive Primer sets up the c-level for success

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.

Are smartphones a cyber threat for your company?

Smartphones could be a cyber threat for your company for several reasons. Learn what you should teach them about safe smartphone habits to prevent a breach.

Why Finance and IT should work together to mitigate security risk

Traditionally, finance has been responsible for reducing business risk. CFOs need to cooperate with IT leadership to mitigate risk from cyber attacks.

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.

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.

The CISO’s Russian Roulette: Not Training Remote Employees

Failing to provide security training to remote employees can leave your company vunerable to cyberattacks that have been increasing recently.

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.

Credential Harvesting – Hoxhunt

#HoxhuntPhishmas Day 24: A real-world Credential Harvesting case explored and exposed!

AI Natural Language Processing is a phishing game changer

We asked the AI bot ChatGPT about its dangers and designs on phishing and world domination. Its responses may surprise you.

How much does phishing really cost businesses?

The true cost of phishing and security breaches doesn’t just lie with the cost of the actual breach itself.

What to look out for with phishy voicemails

What could be more safe and secure than someone's voice? Actually, as it turns out, a lot of things.

What to do when hackers pose as IT or tech support

yB posing as an IT person via a text message or behind a computer, an attacker can gain physical access to your computer and compromise not just your computer but your entire company network.

How hackers prey on your insecurity using PII

Harvesting personally identifiable information (PII) is common practice for hackers and other malicious actors. Here's how they do it.

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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