Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. The rise of social media has added … (more…) The post GUEST ESSAY: Scammers leverage social media, clever con games to carry out digital exploitation appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home. A recently reported phishing and vishing campaign was designed to impersonate Geek Squad.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A recent uptick in the reports of SMS-based business email compromise (BEC) messages may indicate a wider trend that has seen a surge of phishing scams via text messages. Phishing scams are prevalent in the SMS threat landscape, and now BEC attacks are also going mobile,” according to a Trustwave blog post that pointed to.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) published updated recommendations for phishing simulations in security awareness training programs. So deleting an email offering 25% off at Ed’s Golf Cart Repair Shop doesn’t mean a user is an expert at spotting scams. 5, Section 5.3 (pg.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

This day serves as an annual reminder to increase awareness and education for leaders, IT decision-makers and the general public on the importance of identity management. Why is identity management and security important in 2023? Why is identity management and security important in 2023? “In

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made. Hackers are routinely attempting novel ways to infiltrate corporate networks so it’s important to ensure that your employees are aware of how their online behavior can make them – and you – more vulnerable.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. He is also a founding member and Pentester at CSIRT.UBI and founder of the security computer blog seguranca–informatica.pt.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users. Let’s look at a few primary examples.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This time of year also brings a surge of promotional scams. With the increase of malware related scams mentioned at the outset, it is important to be on guard when searching through our inbox. If you mistype a website by accident, there may be a scam website deliberately misspelled to catch accidental web traffic.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

The scheme highlights the role and responsibility upper management plays in ensuring the security of their own company’s assets. are obviously the main targets of the threat actors that use the Office 365 V4 phishing kit,” the blog post concluded. “As Based on the data distribution, CEOs in the U.S.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In all, the agency grouped the main risks into eight categories: ransomware, malware, social engineering, threats against data, threats against availability, disinformation/misinformation, and supply chain targeting. Raising awareness about security awareness. Visit our website to find out more. Links we liked.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. He is also a founding member and Pentester at CSIRT.UBI and founder of the security computer blog seguranca–informatica.pt.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

During these conversations, cybercriminals employed social engineering techniques to gain access not only to the internal network of the company, but also to tools that enabled them to manage Twitter user accounts. More details about this incident can be found in the Twitter company blog. Examples of scam messages on Twitter.

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