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Social Engineering 2.0: The Rise of Deepfake Phishing

SecureWorld News

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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SME email security in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

During such meetings or seminars, business leaders and IT professionals need to highlight the need for workers to: 1) Ensure software is updated. Passwords should contain a mixture of lower and upper-case letters, numbers and symbols, and should be impossible to guess or socially engineer. 3) Attend email awareness training.

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RSA 2020 – See You There!

McAfee

This seminar will provide a full day of focus on emerging threats such as ransomware, targeted attacks, emerging IoT threats, and new aspects of social engineering and deep fake human manipulation. Session: Emerging Threats: Deep Fakes are Getting Terrifyingly Real – How Can We Spot Them?