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Strangest social engineering attacks of 2021

CSO Magazine

MARCH 8, 2022

New research has highlighted the creative and occasionally unusual lengths fraudsters take to carry out social engineering attacks. global resident CISO at Proofpoint, tells CSO. To read this article in full, please click here

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NCSC warns industry, academia of foreign threats to their intellectual property

CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

CISOs of companies both small and large understand how intellectual property (IP) and company infrastructure may be targeted from one of four vectors: malevolent insiders, unscrupulous competitors, criminals, or nation states.

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Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2024

In this Spotlight Podcast, host Paul Roberts talks with Chris Walcutt, the CSO of DirectDefense about the rising cyber threats facing operational technology (OT) and how organizations that manage OT - including critical infrastructure owners can best manage increased cyber risks to OT environments. Read the whole entry. »

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Meta, Apple emergency data request scam holds lessons for CISOs

CSO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

had been successfully socially engineered into providing customer data in response to “emergency data requests” to individuals who they believed to be representing the U.S. A recent Bloomberg piece highlighted how Meta Platforms, Inc., parent company of Facebook) and Apple, Inc., government.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tenable Report Warns About Toxic Cloud Exposures, as PwC Study Urges C-Suite Collaboration for Stronger Cyber Resilience

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Plus, a PwC study says increased collaboration between CISOs and fellow CxOs boosts cyber resilience. Less than 50% of respondents say their organizations’ CISOs are involved “to a large extent” with strategic planning, reporting to the board and overseeing tech deployments.

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Interview with Dr. Arun Vishwanath on the Latest Cybersecurity Attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

The “people problem” is a phrase I heard in many different occasions when I met with IT managers (CISO, CSO, CIOs), many in leading research labs, national security establishments, and such. Some of the data that is stolen feeds social engineering attacks, where hackers use the stolen data to attack people and steal even more.

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ChatGPT Security and Privacy Issues Remain in GPT-4

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

The software supply chain issues identified … in OpenAI’s breach are not surprising, as most organizations are struggling with these challenges, albeit perhaps less publicly,” said Peter Morgan, who is the co-founder and CSO of Phylum.io, a cybersecurity firm that focuses on the supply chain.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Prior to joining Delta Dental, Almeida was the CISO at Covanta Holding Corporation, a leader in energy-from-waste management services. His expertise is in social engineering, technology, security algorithms and business. Todd Bell serves as the chief information security officer and executive director at Valleywise Health.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Unraveling the True Security Risks ” (SecurityWeek) “ How deepfakes threaten biometric security controls ” (TechTarget) “ Deepfakes break through as business threat ” (CSO) 3 - Fake update variants dominate list of top malware in Q3 Hackers are doubling down on fake software-update attacks.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

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. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 2)

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Tyler Farrar , CISO, Exabeam Farrar Traditional SIEM solutions face numerous challenges with limited ability to adapt to new threats and attack vectors — and complex deployment and maintenance processes. Richard Bird , CSO, Traceable AI Bird The bad guys are showing no restraint in exploiting API security weakness to their advantage.

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Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

These groups are also shifting toward more human-centric exploits , like social engineering and insider assistance. CISO Perceptions A critical blind spot for CISOs and cyber risk owners is the divergence in perceptions of their security stack’s effectiveness between leadership and technical teams.

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Strangest social engineering attacks of 2021

NCSC warns industry, academia of foreign threats to their intellectual property

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Meta, Apple emergency data request scam holds lessons for CISOs

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Interview with Dr. Arun Vishwanath on the Latest Cybersecurity Attacks

ChatGPT Security and Privacy Issues Remain in GPT-4

Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 2)

Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

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