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Strangest social engineering attacks of 2021

CSO Magazine

New research has highlighted the creative and occasionally unusual lengths fraudsters take to carry out social engineering attacks. global resident CISO at Proofpoint, tells CSO. To read this article in full, please click here

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NCSC warns industry, academia of foreign threats to their intellectual property

CSO Magazine

CISOs of companies both small and large understand how intellectual property (IP) and company infrastructure may be targeted from one of four vectors: malevolent insiders, unscrupulous competitors, criminals, or nation states.

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Meta, Apple emergency data request scam holds lessons for CISOs

CSO Magazine

had been successfully socially engineered into providing customer data in response to “emergency data requests” to individuals who they believed to be representing the U.S. A recent Bloomberg piece highlighted how Meta Platforms, Inc., parent company of Facebook) and Apple, Inc., government.

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ChatGPT Security and Privacy Issues Remain in GPT-4

eSecurity Planet

The software supply chain issues identified … in OpenAI’s breach are not surprising, as most organizations are struggling with these challenges, albeit perhaps less publicly,” said Peter Morgan, who is the co-founder and CSO of Phylum.io, a cybersecurity firm that focuses on the supply chain.

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Interview with Dr. Arun Vishwanath on the Latest Cybersecurity Attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

The “people problem” is a phrase I heard in many different occasions when I met with IT managers (CISO, CSO, CIOs), many in leading research labs, national security establishments, and such. Some of the data that is stolen feeds social engineering attacks, where hackers use the stolen data to attack people and steal even more.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

Prior to joining Delta Dental, Almeida was the CISO at Covanta Holding Corporation, a leader in energy-from-waste management services. His expertise is in social engineering, technology, security algorithms and business. Todd Bell serves as the chief information security officer and executive director at Valleywise Health.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.