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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.

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.

Phishing Attacks and Scams in 2019 and Beyond

In 2019, phishing attacks and scams were still a hit. We summarized common attak types and interesting statistics you should know to defend yourself better.

An Advanced Phishing Attack Using Google Subdomain

An advanced phishing attack using Google subdomain could trick even the most confident email users to share their password with the attackers.

Attachments in Phishing 102

It's important to recognize suspicious be in a familiar file attachment. We'll show you step by step how malicious Excel and PDF attachments can behave in your Windows environment.

Attachments in Phishing 101

Attackers use attachments in phishing emails to steal your information or spread malware on your system. Learn the basicics of attachments in phishing.

Just how much of a threat is Business Email Compromise?

A guide to Business Email Compromise (BEC): how it works and how you can prevent your company from being a victim of the scourge of BEC

Phishing 101: How Phishing Attacks and Scam Emails Work

Phishing is a cybercrime where attackers want to lure information from you. Learn about the most common phishing schemes and attacks and how to detect 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.

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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