@dbeato First I've heard of this service (speaking of Second Chance, not KnowBe4). Definitely going to check it out.

@rojoloco said in KnowBe4 E-mail Exposure Check:

They POUNCE on anyone using their free services.

And they pounce quickly (probably within a couple of hours of you using one of their free tools). Even when I used the EEC tool mentioned here, I received a follow up from our Customer Success Manager within an hour.

@stus Thanks. Was just reading about it here.

Wow, that IS a scary one.

@dafyre said in Actual Malicious LinkedIn Emails:

@ChrisL said in Actual Malicious LinkedIn Emails:

@dafyre said in Actual Malicious LinkedIn Emails:

@ChrisL said in Actual Malicious LinkedIn Emails:

I would always hope that someone isn't naive enough to think that a major financial institution with their contact info on hand would reach out to them through LinkedIn.

Buuuuuut, I've been wrong before.

Nah... Why would they do that, when they could impersonate a family friend and try to tell me that I won 150k from a non-existent government agency.

Congratulations!

Can I give them your bank account numbers? We can split the winnings.

I was afraid you'd never ask.

Here is a more import question about that stat, it's what I call the "Influenza Stat Problem."

Sure, 60% of hacked SMBs will be out of business in six months. But how many would have been out of business anyway? Meaning there are two factors not considered in the statement:

Are companies about to go out of business more likely to be hacked in the first place? Are all SMBs roughly about 60% likely to go out of business in six months?

With influenza when we had a huge epidemic in the US a few years ago they stated the rate of flu deaths and people started to panic. The number was crazy. But only to the clueless.

What they didn't point out, and should never have needed to, was what the death rate was in the general population. It was as if people just forgot that people die naturally too.

If you looked, influenza did not increase your average chance of death... it lowered it. Presumably because people with the flu stopped doing dangerous things, stayed in bed, were constantly monitored, etc. People are most likely to die from things like car accidents, but car accidents are much less likely when you are home sick!