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Producers of the award-winning “The Inside Man” series now under the KnowBe4 umbrella Tampa Bay, FL (September 30, 2019)– KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the acquisition of the Twist and Shout Group, which encompasses Twist and Shout Media and Twist and Shout Communications. Twist […]

“I’m your biggest fan.” Ever seen that classic 80’s movie ‘Misery’ based on a Stephen King novel, in which Kathy Bates tortures a writer (James Caan)? For some reason that came to mind when we were hanging out at the Restricted Intelligence stand at Infosec 2019. Poor Lionel … he really does walk straight into […]

As a fan or friend of the ‘Restricted Intelligence’ gang we’d like to wish you a smashing 2019. And ‘kudos’ indeed if you’ve managed to stick by those New Year’s resolutions. As you can see, Lionel has set himself some simple challenges. They seem obvious, but the basics are quite often the things that trip […]

We’ve had the smartphone since 2007. That means there is a generation of children who have never known a world without a universe of palm-sized fun. We adults, on the other hand, have a pre-smartphone context. Depending on when you were born we can bore the younger generations rigid with how we only had a […]

In 1984 three million people settled down in front of their TVs to watch the last episode of ‘The Young Ones’; that glorious, violent, irreverent, startling surreal and above all funny, entirely new take on the sitcom. It featured a rag bag of scruffy, dysfunctional types: ‘Neil’ the hippy, ‘Rick’, the Anarchist; ‘Viv’, the punk. […]

The recent grilling of Facebook’s dorm room tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, has made it eminently clear that personal data is not, well, personal … or data. It is a commodity, that can be traded. Chillingly, and unwittingly our clicks may be influencing what brands are set before us, from garden furniture to our political options. No […]

Happy New Year to you. Here’s hoping 2018 brings health and happiness in equal measure. Right off the bat we’ve got National Data Privacy Day on 28th January. Just the moment to slip in a plug for our Restricted Intelligence Privacy Edition, tackling all the important GDPR issues plus vanity shame, social inadequacy and cheating. We’re […]

It would be fair to say that the last couple of months have been nothing less than epic.  There are new Seasons of ‘Tuesdays with Bernie’ in the can plus all new stuff on Privacy and Healthcare polished and ready to go. We are also beyond excited to welcome our new ‘Bernie’ guy – Adam Unwin. And of […]

Lionel doing his best Christian Slater impression. HP has announced they are producing a 12-month digital TV series starring Christian Slater. The programme, entitled “The Wolf,” aims “to raise cyber security awareness at work, perhaps leading to an increase in cyber security jobs.” “Wow,” you’re saying to yourself, “Where have we heard an idea like […]