Social engineering plays an important part in a significant number of cyberattacks, however big, small or sophisticated the crime is. However, little...
“In the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.” A type of...
Phishing attacks have become a common norm now but lately, a different kind of social engineering hack has been identified, which uses...
The web is an interconnected maze consisting of people, organization and computers. The easiest way to hack into such a system is...
Major companies such as Disney, Boeing and General Electric are still handing out information to “hackers” using the most basic tool of...
A BYOD dissonance between economic imperative and loss of central control? Discontented staff susceptible to social engineering? David Harley reflects on aspects...
More cold-call/support scam information.
Someone raised an interesting point in a comment to yesterday’s blog about Symantec’s own PIFTS.EXE being flagged by their own firewall as...
The election may be over, but the bad guys are still milking it, and there are lessons to be learned. I guess...
Given the 'nightmare' that is password management, is Microsoft right to say that it's sometimes OK to re-use the same memorable password...