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Hackers Use Malicious PDFs, pose as USPS in Mobile Phishing Scam

Security Boulevard

Postal Service, in phishing campaign targeting mobile device users in hope that victims will divulge credentials and personal information, Zimperium researchers say. The post Hackers Use Malicious PDFs, pose as USPS in Mobile Phishing Scam appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

Krebs on Security

A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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Disability Access Within the Field of Social Engineering

Security Through Education

I’ve seen people with disabilities in online discussions and on the Social Engineer Slack channel exploring suitable career paths. The Value of Diversity in Social Engineering Social engineering is, at its core, the art of human connection.

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Mobile Device Security Policy

Tech Republic Security

Mobile devices are commonly used to conduct company business, which can render them more susceptible to risk than desktop or even laptop computers. In addition, the same social engineering, phishing and application/operating system vulnerabilities which plague desktops.

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Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

Krebs on Security

In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that USDoD had social-engineered his way into the FBI’s InfraGard program , an FBI initiative designed to build informal information sharing partnerships with vetted professionals in the private sector concerning cyber and physical threats to critical U.S. national infrastructure.

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Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Much of my summer was spent reporting a story about how advertising and marketing firms have created a global free-for-all where anyone can track the daily movements and associations of hundreds of millions of mobile devices , thanks to the ubiquity of mobile location data that is broadly and cheaply available.

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Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup

Krebs on Security

technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass , MailChimp , Okta , T-Mobile and Twilio. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Image: Amitai Cohen twitter.com/amitaico.