NopSec

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The first thing that all organizations need to understand is why social engineering works. In its simplest form, social engineering is an attack that focuses on the human element in the security context. There are a few inherently human qualities that social engineers leverage as part of their attack.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Then, we’ll go over the basic, foundational techniques most scammers find themselves using, such as social engineering and phishing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is now front of mind for many. This includes using easily guessed passwords and falling victim to phishing and socially engineered techniques such as business email compromise.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Could your organization have an insider threat attempting to utilize these same methods and technologies? Navy insider threat: the nuclear engineer with data to sell. The FBI utilized a ProtonMail account utilizing the pseudo name BOB. It is something to consider as we explore what happened here. military relies on.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. There are multiple other attack angles to test, including: Network compromises Social engineering (e.g., Besides, attacking tools can send multiple probes or headers along with their requests (e.g.,

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

They had super weak, easily guessable passwords, which was visible to anyone who looked. Mind you, SolarWinds software is used to monitor network traffic by someone of the biggest names in the federal government (such as the Treasury department, the department of Commerce, department of Energy, NATO, and the European parliament).

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