Hot for Security

JUNE 4, 2021

Fraudsters and scammers are in full attack mode as they prepare this year’s arsenal of fake booking websites and holiday offers to steal personal information and money from holidaymakers looking for last-minute deals and cheap property rentals. Why identifying fake booking deals can be difficult.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If you google the definition for social engineering, you’ll probably find something like “the use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes.” Let me share with you some ways that I’ve used social engineering on myself and how it has benefitted me.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. Hacker targets victims with fear. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ted Harrington’s new book Hackable: How To Do Application Security Right argues for making application security a focal point, while laying out a practical framework that covers many of the fundamental bases. Adopting and nurturing a security culture is vital for all businesses. But where to start? Harrington: Software runs the world.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 13, 2025

Microsoft has shed light on an ongoing phishing campaign that targeted the hospitality sector by impersonating online travel agency Booking.com using an increasingly popular social engineering technique called ClickFix to deliver credential-stealing malware.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2021

A 2019 vulnerability is being exploited to remotely wipe WD My Book Live NAS devices, by Eastern-European malefactors. The post Did your WD My Book NAS get Wiped? Put a Brave Face on It appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

According to psychologist Robert Cialdini it’s because of social proof. In his book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion , Dr. Robert Cialdini states, “Social Proof – People will do things that they see other people are doing. Social proof is in our nature as humans. The same principle applies in social engineering.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

They all use psychology and social engineering skills to convince their victims to take an action that is detrimental to them. In his book “The Art of the Steal” Frank Abagnale said: “Hotel clerks and merchants didn’t question pilots and doctors too closely.” It’s easy to think “I know better” or “that will never happen to me.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

AI chat tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claudefrom OpenAI competitor Anthropiccan brainstorm ideas for marketing materials, write book reports, compose poems, and even review human-written text for legibility. They can even mimic the styles of famous artists, like Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Picasso.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 1, 2024

I write this to highlight a key breakthrough I’ve encountered so far at Social-Engineer, LLC (SECOM), that until now, I hadn’t truly grasped at a fundamental level. Written by: Carter Zupancich Human Risk Analyst at Social-Engineer, LLC But no positions really spoke to my interests. Until now.

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SC Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Infosec’s Choose Your Own Adventure training game “Deep Space Danger” tests employees on their knowledge of social engineering. “B” is obviously the correct choice, but not all companies succeed in motivating their workers to learn the ins and outs of phishing, social engineering and other cyber threats.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It has been the official home for all things social engineering for 12 years straight. SEVillage is also the home for all social engineering speeches at DEF CON. Friday launched the Social Engineering Capture the Flag 4 Kids (SECTF4Kids). The SEVillage was established back in 2010 at DEF CON 18.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

AIS have no emotions and therefore cannot be attacked by social engineering methods. About the essayist: Igor Stukanov is an inventor and author of several books on “dynamical passwords.” However, the password information is received from the AIS, not from humans.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 10, 2021

137, Chris Hadnagy joins Maxie Reynolds to talk about the amazing stories and useful lessons contained in Chris’s new book : “ Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You ”. And check out a schedule for all our training at Social-Engineer, LLC. Enjoy the Outtro Music?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 20, 2023

After serving time in prison for computer hacking and wire fraud charges, he became a visionary and a master of social engineering. He was referred to as 'the world’s most famous hacker,' but he was REALLY the most famous 'social engineer' of our time. But Mitnick was much more than just "the world's most famous hacker."

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Architect Security

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The first published recording of “Social Engineering At Work – How to use positive influence to gain management buy-in for anything“ Recorded at DerbyCon 2018, also presented at Social Engineering Rhode Island, GRRCon, CircleCityCon, BSM, etc.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 5, 2021

Go back about 15 years and if you and I were sitting over a whisky having a chat I would never have imagined that social engineering would be where it is today. When I started this company and began writing Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking , I never thought we would be where we are today either. .

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Security Boulevard

JULY 16, 2021

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

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

intelligence agencies—so says a new book. Huge hotel reservations site Booking.com was breached.com. And the perp was the NSA, or one of the U.S. The post Who is ‘Andrew’—the US Spy who Hacked Booking.com? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They’re improving their tools, they’re improving their business models, and they’re constantly evolving their techniques for getting companies to pay using social engineering. Nowhere near fast enough. If you get value from this content, you can support it directly by becoming a member.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

They can take advantage of the less secure methods of authentication, like one-time passcodes, and socially engineer a user to hand over codes or intercept them before they reach the end user. However, attackers are finding ways around MFA.

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Security Through Education

JULY 19, 2021

You are also “presenting a rational justification, explanation, or ‘excuse’ for pursuing a social encounter of some kind.”. Pretexting as a Social Engineer. If you had heard of pretexting before clicking on this blog, you may align it with social engineering , or with use in a professional setting.

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Security Through Education

AUGUST 30, 2021

As social engineers interacting with people on adversarial simulation engagements, or even in our daily lives, it is important to understand how we are affecting the people we encounter. While a social engineer won’t generally need anything as intense as Tina’s example, there is value to the technique behind it.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 26, 2022

Marketers utilize aggregate data , collected from online purchases and website visits, alongside social engineering to keep you purchasing, downloading, and revisiting. Aggregate Data, Algorithms, and Social Engineering = Influence. It can also include behavior metrics like average age and number of transactions.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am currently a full-time social engineering pentesting professional with Social-Engineer, LLC (SECOM). The Social Engineering Framework defines vishing as the “practice of eliciting information or attempting to influence action over the telephone.” My specialization is vishing services.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Details are in that the info belongs to all those customers who booked their orders on the platform from the past few years(say between Nov’18 to Oct’2020) and might include sensitive details of half of the affected consumers.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

Grimes has worked in the cybersecurity industry for more than 30 years, authoring 13 books and more than 1,300 articles. These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. Social engineering has its tells, though. What is phishing?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Category News, Social Engineering. All of the attacks were carried out with relatively simple phishing and social engineering techniques. IHG’s booking sites and apps were unavailable for several days as a result. Risk Level. Several large companies were hacked in the first half of September. The common theme?

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The book intertwines two parallel storylines: one set during World War II, focusing on a group of codebreakers and their efforts to secure Allied communications, and the other in the late 1990s, where a tech entrepreneur attempts to create a secure data haven in Southeast Asia. – Patrick Gabriel, Principal Security Consultant 8.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

That would be an argument that vulns are more important than social engineering, which is an argument that a lot of people have a lot of opinions about, and very few people bring data thats oriented around first gather data on problems.) At what rate are computers getting sick or dying? Which vulnerabilities matter?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The nation-state group is using the compromised accounts to target contacts in the victims’ address books. The phishing messages used a classic social engineering technique in the attempt to trick victims into providing their information to avoid the permanent suspension of their email accounts. ua-passport[.]space

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I wrote this in my book, Data and Goliath : The problem is that encryption is just a bunch of math, and math has no agency. This includes writing vulnerability-free software, designing user interfaces that help resist social engineering, and building computer networks that aren’t full of holes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2022

Hotel bookings, ticketing systems, restaurant bookings will probably be the first target for hackers and so cyber security experts are taking all precautions to secure the personal data of travelers, players, event managers, organizers and such.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Attacks such as hacking, phishing, ransomware and social engineering are on the rise. For example, I experienced first-hand when I started in this sector that the cost of books, courses and accreditations was and remains astronomical. I wrote several books to share knowledge with those embarking on a career in cybersecurity.

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Mitnick Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Kevin grew up learning that tricking people in the form of social engineering and cybersecurity hacking was not only fun, it earned him attention and respect. It’s hard to imagine that it all started with a kid who had unsupervised free time and an insatiable curiosity for magic tricks and the budding tech industry — but it did.

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