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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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Creating a Company Culture for Security: 6 Step Actionable Strategy

Your essential guide to building a robust security culture. How to implement effective training, policies, and recognition systems to mitigate human cyber risk.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Lloyds created a social media style security awareness training program to maximize reach

Gareth Thomas created a social media style security awareness training program at Lloyds to reach whole new levels of employee engagement and interest in cybersecurity

The Essential Guide to Security Engagement

Security engagement training is changing the way employees learn to recognize and report phishing emails. Learn how it is replacing security awareness.

10 Cybersecurity Trends to Focus On in 2020

We listed 10 cybersecurity trends that will drive cybersecurity strategies in 2020. Read our predictions to learn what most CISOs will implement.

Employee Shopping Online & Exposing Company To Cyber Threats

Employees shopping online from work devices or network could have serious consequences for your company. Learn how you can mitigate the risks.

The Roadmap to Cybersecurity Awareness in Your Organization

Create cybersecurity awareness in your organization. Get our best tips for transforming your organization’s cybersecurity culture.

A webcam cover in place keeps the bad guys from peeping away

Hackers can stalk and record you through your webcam – All it needs is a malicious program snuck into your computer.

Security Awareness Training Doesn't Work - Here's How to Fix it

Security awareness training is often half-hearted and inefficient – but it doesn’t have to be. Here's our key points on making it 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.

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.

How Hackers Hide Behind Trusted Services

Phishing campaigns can hijack legitimate services like Microsoft or Adobe to bypass spam filters and earn user trust

Attackers Personalize Phishing – How About Your Training?

Attackers often craft phishing campaigns based on data they find online about the victims. Why would you miss out on personalizing your phishing training?

5 ways attackers can bypass two-factor authentication

Learn about the most common social engineering tactics that attackers use to bypass two-factor authentication.

Social Engineering—What Is it and How to Prepare For it?

How to prepare your employees to recognize social engineering? We'll explain what it is and what you need to do shield your company from social engineering.

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