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All the content from last year’s PeepSec, Impact and flagship industry events
Incorporating psychology into cyber security education: A pedagogical approach
The role of the human in cyber security is well acknowledged. Many cyber security incidents rely upon targets performing specific behavioural actions, such as opening a link within a phishing email. Cyber adversaries themselves are driven by psychological processes...
Coronavirus, Trump threats, geopolitical campaigns – how they affect your business & what you should do
SC Magazine
Why we need new and better human cyber risk metrics
To make a difference as a security professional today, you need board support. You need resources. You need directors to trust and back you. You need organizational leaders to promote security. So whenever you have the board’s attention – or the attention of those who...
UN Admits Data Breach From Unpatched SharePoint Vulnerability
CPO Magazine
Human error to blame for 9 in 10 UK cyber data breaches last year
IT Reseller
$200,000: University of Maastricht Pays Hackers a 30 Bitcoin Ransom
Cryptoglobe
Human error to blame for 9 in 10 UK cyber data breaches in 2019
Canary Wharf, London, 06 2020 – 90 per cent of cyber data breaches were caused by user error last year, according to analysis of data from the UK’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) by the cyber security awareness and data analytics company, CybSafe. In 2019, UK...
No Reino Unido, 90% das violações de segurança ocorrem por causa de seres humanos
Sempre Update
Almost All 2019 UK Data Breaches Were Caused By Human Error
DigitFYI
Human error to blame for 9 in 10 UK data breaches last year
ITProPortal
Cock-up culture: Staff guilty of 90% of data breaches
Decision Marketing
Cybersecurity: the small business guide
SME Technology Guide
90 percent of security breaches caused by humans
Fudzilla
90% of UK Data Breaches Due to Human Error in 2019
InfoSecurity Magazine
The University of Maastricht paid a $ 300,000 ransom in bitcoin
The Cryptonomist
On demand webinar: Cyber skill up
Join our workshop on people-centric security How to place people at the heart of your cyber resilience strategy and unlock the benefits of an enhanced cyber defence. It’s time we stopped paying lip service to the human aspect of cyber security Verizon’s 2019...
Evaluating the strength of a multilingual passphrase policy
This study investigated the security gains of using a multilingual passphrase policy in user generated passphrases that are based on African and Indo-European languages. The research on passwords has been largely focused on the Global North where English is often the...
Cue utilization, phishing feature and phishing email detection
Cognitive processes are broadly considered to be of vital importance to understanding phishing email feature detection or misidentification. This research extends the current literature by introducing the concept of cue utilization as a unique predictor of phishing...
Simulation based learning in critical infrastructure security awareness: An empirical study
This thesis investigates how simulation-based learning affects the knowledge of cybersecurity risk management. To this end, an experiment was set up, leveraging the simulation game CyberCIEGE. Thirteen undergraduate IT students were involved in the experiment and took...
UN hacked: Attackers got in via SharePoint vulnerability
HelpNetSecurity
On demand webinar: Meaningful metrics
webinarAre you using meaningful metrics to manage human cyber risk?What will you learn during our webinar? Learn about how to measure success and progress in your campaigns Understand the importance of Awareness, Behaviour and Culture metrics Learn why shallow...