The Most Effective Attacks Are Often the Simplest

The recent Twitter hack shows that devastating security breaches don’t always involve sophisticated actors or methods, according to Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security. On the ...

August 13, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Having a Wonderful Time, Wish Your Data Were Here

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued an alert warning that someone is impersonating the OCR and sending fraudulent postcards to ...

August 12, 2020 Roger Grimes

Phishing Golden Hour

In emergency healthcare settings, the “golden hour” is the time between when a patient suffering a life threatening event (e.g., heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, etc.) is most likely to ...

August 12, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

My lazy Sunday afternoon was interrupted...

My lazy Sunday afternoon was interrupted with what appeared to be a prank, a social engineering attempt, or something else that remains to be identified.

August 6, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Leaked U.S.-UK Trade Documents Show How Devastating Compromised Email Can Be

An ongoing criminal investigation highlights how classified documents stolen by Russian hackers from former U.K. trade minister Liam Fox may have been used to impact the British 2019 ...

August 6, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

The Importance of Identifying and Focusing on the Malicious Behavior

Identifying malicious behavior is a more effective long-term strategy than trying to block individual malicious actors, according to Johnathan Hunt, Vice President of Security at GitLab. ...

August 5, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

Hacked High-Profile Twitter Accounts Are Used to Promote a Cryptocurrency Scam

Using the theme of partnering with a made up COVID-19 non-profit, the latest hack on twitter allowed some pretty prominent accounts to be used as pawns in a scam that netted $120K.

July 31, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

The Recent Massive Twitter Social Engineering Hack Was Tried And True Pretexting

The verge reported: "Twitter provided an update about the unprecedented July 15th attack that allowed hackers to tweet from some of the most high-profile accounts on the service, in a ...

July 31, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

[HEADS UP] North Korean Cybercriminals Use Fake Recruitment Emails in Phishing Scam

North Korean hackers have been following that bit of social engineering wisdom to a T. According to researching from McAfee, a months long phishing campaign against aerospace and defense ...

July 29, 2020 Stu Sjouwerman

[HEADS UP] Coronavirus Scams in the U.K. You Should be Wary Of

According to a recent report from BBC News, the bad guys are using the coronavirus pandemic to use social engineering to trick people out of their cash.

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