Remove Cyber threats Remove Scams Remove Security Awareness Remove Social Engineering
article thumbnail

Choose Your Own Adventure game animates security awareness training

SC Magazine

Infosec’s Choose Your Own Adventure training game “Deep Space Danger” tests employees on their knowledge of social engineering. The employees at your organization are badly in need of security awareness training. Two of them are fraudsters trying to socially engineer their way onto the station.

article thumbnail

Cybersecurity Tips to Avoid Fouls During March Madness

SecureWorld News

Between checking scores, streaming games, participating in office pools, and inevitably some placing of bets, users will be presenting an abundance of new openings for threat actors to attack. As March Madness unfolds, users will need to apply a full-court press defense against ever-more sophisticated cyber threats.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Phishing towards failed trust

CyberSecurity Insiders

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. This blog was written by an independent guest blogger.

Phishing 103
article thumbnail

Know Your Enemy: Following a Seasoned Phisher's Train of Thought

SecureWorld News

To top it off, the average amount of money requested in wire transfer business email compromise (BEC) scams reached a whopping $93,881. For instance, when winter holidays are around the corner, it's time to be wary of scams in which criminals try to bait people with bogus promos and giveaways.

article thumbnail

Phishing Awareness Training: Best Providers 2020

Spinone

Phishing attacks are one of the main cyber threats involving mistakes by workers. So, let’s take a look at notable phishing awareness training providers. An aware employee is less likely to fall for a phishing scam. Apart from that, you can test your employees using a simulated phishing awareness campaign.

article thumbnail

SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Ransomware is undoubtedly one of the most unnerving phenomena in the cyber threat landscape. Numerous strains of this destructive code have been the front-page news in global computer security chronicles for almost a decade now, with jaw-dropping ups and dramatic downs accompanying its progress. inch diskettes.

article thumbnail

Websites repeatedly stalked by fraudulent copycats, say researchers

SC Magazine

The tech’s getting better and the cost is getting lower and those things are probably what’s working against the [security] community,” said Sean Nikkel, senior cyber threat intel analyst at Digital Shadows. We didn’t expect the food-and-beverage industry to have such a strong presence of risky domains,” the report said.