CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Social engineering definition. Social engineering is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to buildings, systems or data. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 8, 2022

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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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

Security researchers have used the GPT-3 natural language generation model and the ChatGPT chatbot based on it to show how such deep learning models can be used to make social engineering attacks such as phishing or business email compromise scams harder to detect and easier to pull off.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Oh, and the bad guys go looking for these open doors using automated scanning tools, software exploits, social engineering scams, or anything else that works. Because every IT widget represents a potential entry point for cyber-adversaries. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Expert Chris Hadnagy advises us, “Unless you’re in the security business or law enforcement, you won’t be familiar with every new scam that pops up. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

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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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For more information about protecting your organization against deepfakes: “ How to prevent deepfakes in the era of generative AI ” (TechTarget) “ Deepfake scams escalate, hitting more than half of businesses ” (Cybersecurity Dive) “ The AI Threat: Deepfake or Deep Fake? critical infrastructure Boost the integrated cyber defenses of the U.S.

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