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Latest social engineering news, analysis, tactics the bad guys are using and what you can do to defend your organization.
Steve Rangan over at the The CSO site wrote:
There is a new phishing campaign doing the rounds trying to get your Twitter login credentials. The scam arrives as a direct messages to prospective victims from one of their contacts. ...
Ira Winkler and Samantha Manke just wrote a great article at the CSO site about why security awareness programs fail. They started out with: "There is a great dichotomy in Security ...
There is a fascinating article in SC Magazine dated July 3, 2013 which tells the story of Atlantic Media Chief Technology Officer Tom Cochran, who blasted out a simulated phishing email ...
One - Insider Threat: Stealing valuable information for either profit or idealistic motives. Examples: Software developers taking home code for their next job, sales people downloading ...
From the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Note that i t only takes 20 emails to get one successful click on a phishing attack. Read the story above!
Spear-phishing attacks are up, and they are targeting individuals across all industries, according to a new warning issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .
Seen "World War Z" recently? Your mobile phone might soon be infected and become a zombie.
Price Waterhouse (PwC) and CSO Magazine just released their 2013 State of Cybercrime Survey. It shows that lack of risk awareness means companies are poorly defended. This is their 11th ...
It appears that Edward Snowden used a thumb drive to exfiltrate the Top Secret files documents from NSA's network. The US DoD banned the use of flash drives in 2008 after Defense systems ...
Scam Of The Week: CIA Prism Watchlist Just this morning, a researcher discovered an email uploaded to Virustotal called CIA's_prism_Watchlist_.eml. The content refers to Snowden, and the ...
The super popular SlideShare site has featured our Seven Social Engineering Vices slide deck on their front page for a short time. Here is what they sent me!
Eugene Kaspersky recently gave one of his very rare interviews. He was in Israel for a staff recruitment tour, and was quoted saying:"
The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices blog post has been viewed well over 11,000 times and has gone viral. That's why we created a (much prettier) SlideShare version for you which you ...
Inadequate response plans and poorly executed procedures caused data breach costs to rise significantly at some businesses, according to the Ponemon Institute. Mistakes, negligence and ...
It was all over the news. The Citadel botnet responsible for stealing more than 500 million dollars out of bank accounts from both individuals and organizations worldwide has been largely ...
UPDATED June 9: 16:51p - In an interview with TechCrunch, Eugene H. Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue and a noted expert in computer security observed something ...
This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion using spear-phising. In summary, they phished Onion employees’ Google Apps accounts via 3 separate methods. From ...
