Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2025

Bacon Redux: Pig butchering and other serious scams still thriving, despite crackdowns in Dubai and Myanmar The post Asian Scam Farms: Industrial Scale, Warns UN Report appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2025

This critical shift of social media apps becoming mission-critical everything apps requires a different approach when it comes to resiliency. The post Ensuring High Availability and Resilience in the Everything App Era appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 12, 2025

The post No, Elon X DDoS was NOT by Ukraine appeared first on Security Boulevard. X marks the botnet: Outage outrage was a Ukrainian cyberattack, implies our favorite African billionaire comedy villain.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2025

Ban appeared first on Security Boulevard. Not For You: Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act shouldnt be enforced, orders President Trump. The post Trump U-Turn: TikToks On-Again/Off-Again U.S.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The post TikTok ‘Infinite Money Glitch’ — Idiots Chased by JPMorgan appeared first on Security Boulevard. Dimon’s dollars (not yours): No, Chase Bank isn’t going to let you cash bad checks. It’s fraud—no matter what X and TikTok tell you.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2025

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Social Engineering

Webroot

JULY 6, 2022

Social engineering attacks like phishing, baiting and scareware have skyrocketed to take the top spot as the #1 cause of cybersecurity breaches. So what makes social engineering so effective? When cybercriminals use social engineering tactics, they prey on our natural instinct to help one another.

Social Engineering

Webroot

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to the latest ISACA State of Security 2021 report , social engineering is the leading cause of compromises experienced by organizations. Findings from the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report also point to social engineering as the most common data breach attack method. Avoid becoming a victim.

Social Engineering

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

Social Engineering

SC Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

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. What do you do? Bore them with dull content that feels like a lecture.

Security Awareness

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.

Security Awareness

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. Zack Allen is director of threat intelligence for ZeroFOX , a Baltimore-based company that helps customers detect and respond to risks found on social media and other digital channels.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2021

Media conflated hacker and cybercriminal very early on, and it has been challenging to correct that error and separate the terms. The post Jayson Street – Hacking and Social Engineering and Why There are No ‘Black Hat’ Hackers appeared first on TechSpective. I even wrote as far back as 2005 that the debate was [.].

Social Engineering

Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2025

The post Trump’s TikTok Tarry — Yet Again, Ban-Can Kicked Down the Road appeared first on Security Boulevard. PAFACA Pause Persists: Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?

Social Engineering

SecureWorld News

MAY 17, 2021

Social engineering tricks are constantly used by threat actors to gain access to an individual's account or even an entire organization's system. Sometimes they are easily spotted by the trained security professional, but even the best of us can fall for a sophisticated scheme. Examples of social engineering tricks.

Social Engineering

Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

What is social engineering? Social engineering is a manipulative technique used by criminals to elicit specific actions in their victims. Social engineering is seldom a stand-alone operation. money from a bank account) or use it for other social engineering types. George vs.

Social Engineering

Security Through Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

As a professional social engineer, it’s always interesting when I get asked, “What do you do for work?” Can you get people’s social security numbers?” However, an ethical social engineer must adhere to scope. Social engineering engagements involve human vulnerability. What is Scope?

Social Engineering

Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Every year companies lose thousands and even millions of dollars due to security breaches. They may upgrade company software or increase security awareness training. With all this effort though, many security executives wonder if their resources are well spent. We do this to leave our targets “ better for having met us.”

Social Engineering

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cyber Security Awareness Month: Time to Act and Protect Trust. We’re approaching the end of Cyber Security Awareness Month , an annual event dedicated to increasing awareness of cybersecurity topics globally. Cybercriminals increasingly employ social engineering tactics because they are effective.

Security Awareness

Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

When considering a fully-featured and well thought out security plan , the human factor is an extremely important part of the equation, and arguably just as important as the technology component of the solution. In this article, we will take a look at cyber security awareness across an SMB organization.

Security Awareness

SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2024

"March Madness is a prime opportunity for cybercriminals to deploy phishing lures, malicious apps, and social engineering tactics," warns Krishna Vishnubhotla, VP of Product Strategy at mobile security firm Zimperium.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

“This event supports the idea that all organizations need to educate and phish their employees regularly to ensure they are aware of and know how to spot and report socially-engineered emails,” said James McQuiggan, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. It’s a bipartisan issue that should unite us all.”.

Phishing

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2022

A recent experience highlighted that security awareness training and most alerts to users about unsafe practices may be making the error of being too general. An alert came in one morning about a security alert generated by my device. Security Awareness Training Improvements Coming. “As Echoes of Y2K.

Security Awareness

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2023

Email impersonation threats are proving to be the most difficult to block as social engineering helps cybercriminals successfully deceive both end users and the security tools designed to protect them. Social engineering combined with advancing technology such as generative AI has made attacks more advanced and harder to spot.

Social Engineering

BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. After all, it’s called social engineering for a reason. Education and awareness are powerful weapons against scammers. The Health Service Executive is warning of fake contact tracing calls. spyware, ransomware).”.

Security Awareness

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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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4, said LinkedIn has become one of the most impersonated brands when it comes to phishing, and having access to such a treasure trove of information can help facilitate convincing phishing and social engineering attacks.

Social Engineering

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Back in the day, security training was largely reserved for IT security specialists and then extended to include IT personnel in general. These days, all employees need to be well educated in security best practices and good habits if the organization wishes to steer clear of ransomware and malware. Living Security.

Cybersecurity

Security Boulevard

MAY 28, 2024

Pork Talk: “Pig butchering” scams are on the rise via social media. The post ‘Microsoft’ Scammers Steal the Most, says FTC appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. To pursue cybersecurity culture change, we recommend you to institute a cost-effective, company-wide security awareness training for your employees.

Security Awareness

Security Boulevard

JULY 26, 2021

Disinformation is rife on social media. The post Anti-Vax Lies Spread on YouTube—Paid for ‘by Russian PR Company’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. The latest scandal is a Russian PR firm paying YouTubers to flog lies about vaccines killing people.

Media

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Kaspersky researchers recently found evidence of an advanced threat group continuously updating its malware to evade security products, similar to a release cycle for developers. Clearly, companies and individuals should not rely exclusively on built-in security. The sophisticated malware was hidden in malicious Word file attachments.

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Security Through Education

JULY 1, 2024

Vulnerabilities Exposed by SMiShing SMiShing exploits various vulnerabilities, including: Human Trust: Attackers may leverage social engineering techniques to manipulate human psychology, exploiting trust and inducing victims to take actions against their best interests.

Social Engineering

Security Boulevard

JULY 16, 2021

A new book exposes yet another Facebook failure for the social media firm to say sorry about. The post Stalkers: ‘Ugly Truth’ of Facebook Staff Abusing Private Data appeared first on Security Boulevard. But nothing’s going to change.

Media

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 21, 2024

Attacks today can be executed through a myriad of communication channels, including emails, social media and mobile applications. The post The Golden Age of Impersonation: The Dual Role of AI in Cyber Attacks & Cyber Defense appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Cyber Attacks

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. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons).

Phishing

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2022

Cryptocurrency scammers love social media—especially Meta’s platforms. The post Fake Cash Scams Thrive on Facebook and Insta—FTC appeared first on Security Boulevard. Hundreds of millions of dollars were scammed from U.S. consumers in 2021.

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