A Special Case of Business Email Compromise
Cloudflare warns that business email compromise (BEC) phishing has assumed a new form: vendor email compromise (VEC). The classic BEC case involves the impersonation of someone within an ...
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Cloudflare warns that business email compromise (BEC) phishing has assumed a new form: vendor email compromise (VEC). The classic BEC case involves the impersonation of someone within an ...
When should organizations be on guard against social engineering? Always, of course, but there are certain times when they should be especially alert. A study of cyberattacks has found ...
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone is trying to communicate information to another person, but falsely assumes that the other person has the same level of ...
You should use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) when you can to protect valuable data and systems. But most biometrics and MFA are not as strong as touted and much of ...
The Russian-based hacking group Seaborgium is at it again with increased spear phishing attacks targeting US and European countries in the last year.
The Dutch organization Supply Value (a specialist in network optimalisation) together with the website Computable, published an article on their annual research into the top trends in IT ...
Cybersecurity is not just a technological challenge, but increasingly a social and behavioral one.
A survey by Tanium has found that IT security professionals in the UK say that 64% of avoidable cyber attacks are due to human error, which usually involves falling for phishing attacks. ...
There is a lot to learn from Reddit's recent data breach, which was the result of an employee falling for a “sophisticated and highly-targeted” spear phishing attack.
Seemingly repeating the previous year, the FTC’s latest report highlights that nearly 70,000 people reported being the victim of a romance scam last year.