Webroot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Security awareness training is one of the most straightforward ways to improve a business’ overall resilience against cyberattacks. To help you get started, here are our top 5 recommendations for starting your security awareness program so you can maximize the impact of your efforts. That is, when you get it just right.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Lack of security awareness and education. Often, employees within organizations lack sufficient security awareness and education. This lack of knowledge makes them susceptible to phishing attacks, social engineering, and other cyber threats. Promote security awareness and education among employees.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Phishing exercises are an important tool towards promoting security awareness in an organization. However, any social engineer can devise a marvelously deceptive message with an irresistible link that only the most tech-savvy person would spot as a phishing test.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The fraudster commences the social engineering by irritating the targeted victim, and then follows up with an an offer to … (more…). The post GUEST ESSAY: ‘Nag attacks’ — this new phishing variant takes full advantage of notification fatigue appeared first on Security Boulevard. One must admire the ingenuity of cybercriminals.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

This could include malware that antivirus and security solutions can’t detect; a secure internet connection to prevent tracing; initial access to victim companies’ networks or mailboxes (which is also key to many ransomware infections); effective social engineering content; fraudulent content hosting, and more.

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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

JUNE 22, 2022

It could be via virus malware, phishing, social engineering, fileless malware, etc. Did you know every 39 seconds, at least one system gets compromised worldwide? So, we’re here to talk about one such common tactic: Spyware. What is spyware and how does it work? You’ll find the answers below as well as the various types, […].

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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. For security awareness training to be successful, it has to be collaborative. Ready to establish your own successful security awareness training?

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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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BH Consulting

MARCH 8, 2024

Jenny Radcliffe Jenny’s work serves as a useful reminder that cybersecurity might be a technical discipline, but helping people to become more security aware is among the best investments an organisation can make.

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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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This is a platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing tests focusing on the problem of social-engineering. This is an online solution for conducting phishing simulations and making employees more cyber aware. A free test is provided for up-to 100 employees.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

October 2023’s Cyber Security Awareness Month led to a flurry of blog posts about a new attack called Quishing (QR Code phishing) and how new AI powered email gateways can potentially block these attacks. Currently, most initial access attempts are carried out with social engineering, commonly phishing.

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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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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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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Phishing attacks often rely on social engineering techniques to trick users into revealing sensitive data. Social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google+ are commonly exploited to access user accounts. Whaling, spear, barrel, reverse social engineering, malware, ransomware, account compromise.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 23, 2022

To get to their targets, the attackers used social engineering via LinkedIn “hiding behind the ruse of attractive, but bogus, job offers,” ESET said, adding that it was likely part of the Lazarus campaign for Mac and is similar to research done by ESET in May. Get Fast, Easy, and Secure Enterprise-Grade Code Signing With Venafi!

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BH Consulting

MAY 23, 2023

Say it again, I double dare you Anyone familiar with phishing and social engineering will know scammers often use psychological tricks to get victims to divulge personal data. This knowledge could also help security professionals with developing or updating security awareness programmes.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2022

In this blog, we'll focus on some common phishing campaigns that our threat intelligence has seen in the wild, and the lessons your users can take away from these and other materials in our latest Phishing Awareness Kit. Use the Proofpoint Phishing Awareness Kit to raise phishing awareness and educate your users.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. The post Mobile BEC Attacks on the Rise appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a blog released by Armorblox, the researchers said one attack impersonates a FedEx online document share and the other pretends to share shipping details from DHL. The phishing pages were hosted on free services such as Quip and Google Firebase to trick security technologies and users into thinking the links were legitimate.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 13, 2022

In the first part of this two-part blog series, we touched on understanding your security posture, training your employees, and […]. The post Stronger Security Posture: Building Your Program appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 19, 2021

appeared first on Kratikal Blog. appeared first on Security Boulevard. It is common knowledge that any system is as strong as its weakest link. Unsurprisingly, threat actors constantly probe enterprise networks for such. The post Phishers and Spoofers are Getting Smarter! The post Phishers and Spoofers are Getting Smarter!

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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.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 23, 2022

Using the Easy Button™ Last month, we posted our blog explaining the staffing shortage in the information security (InfoSec) industry. The post Fixing the Shortage of Information Security Professionals appeared first on Security Boulevard. It can often take three to six months to fill.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 27, 2022

When you’re looking for a good security test, how can you tell the useful from the misleading? The post DE:CODED – Testing like hackers appeared first on SE Labs Blog. The post DE:CODED – Testing like hackers appeared first on Security Boulevard. Can a well-intentioned tester behave the same as a real cybercriminal?

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Only through learning about the tactic’s scammers use can we truly continue to improve our own personal security. At Social Engineer LLC, our purpose is to bring education and awareness to all users of technology.

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Webroot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Being aware is the first step towards protecting your business. Security awareness training (SAT) can help. What is Security Awareness Training? Security awareness training is a proven, knowledge-based approach to empowering employees to recognize and avoid security compromises while using business devices.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. These statistics highlight the immense threat posed by phishing, especially BEC attacks, to organizations across industries.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This blog post focuses on how to create a bridge / correlation between CVE, CAPEC, CWE and ATT&CK vulnerability and attack taxonomies for the purpose of better understanding attack vectors and methods. The current version as of 2021 is version 3.7 , which has 546 attack patterns.

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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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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In today’s digital age, our children are growing up in a world that is vastly different from the one we knew as kids.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Original post at [link] While organizations must still account for flashy vulnerability exploitations, denial-of-service campaigns, or movie-themed cyber-heists, phishing-based social engineering attacks remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Street, a self-described “hacker-helper-human,” contemplates bad password advice, investing in human behavior, and why social engineering continues to work. See the video at the blog post. Humans are not the weakest link in information security. They’re the least invested in for security. I’ve fallen for a phish.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This vastly increased mobility, cloud computing and social networking usage; in some cases, this transition occurred before companies and staff were fully prepared. Enterprises and their staff dealt with a lot of change in 2020. The pandemic and resulting lockdowns forced organizations to allow staff to work from home.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Each type of penetration test focuses on a different target: Network penetration testing Network penetration testing , also called network security testing , focuses on internal and external networks, wireless endpoints and wireless networks, email phishing, and other types of social engineering.

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