Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The rise of these types of attacks marks a significant shift in the cyber threat landscape, where attackers are increasingly “logging in” rather than hacking in.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. Tank, seen here performing as a DJ in Ukraine in an undated photo from social media.

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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.” I’m not originally from the InfoSec world.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 17, 2021

Ira Winkler, CISO at Skyline Technology Solutions, recounts his amazing journey from wannabe astronaut to NSA intelligence analyst, social engineer, systems hacker and author, and some of the crazy things that happened along the way - check it out. The post CISO Stories Podcast: So You Want to be a Cyber Spy?

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Perhaps we thought, who would want to hack a completely unknow person like me? The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency , lists the following 4 steps to protect yourself: Implement multi-factor authentication on your accounts and make it significantly less likely you’ll get hacked. Update your software. Rosa Rowles.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2024

Then they switch to the best practices to prevent social media account takeovers, highlighting […] The post The World of Scambaiting, Preventing Social Media Account Takeovers, Network Wrenches Hacked appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2024

For Hacking. Today, malicious actors from cybercriminal ransomware gangs to nation-state affiliated hacking groups are teeing up vulnerable operational technology (OT) environments. ” As Chris and I discuss, social engineering attacks are the first step in many sophisticated attacks.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

You’d think that having an amazing resume, a couple of bug bounties, or a CTF win would land you that dream infosec job. Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. There's a serious shortage of InfoSec professionals.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

You’d think that having an amazing resume, a couple of bug bounties, or a CTF win would land you that dream infosec job. Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. There's a serious shortage of InfoSec professionals.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For instance, the top entry points for attackers are phishing and social engineering, and application vulnerabilities. Understanding this, you can use tactics like anti-phishing training and multi-factor authentication to lower the risks of social engineering.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The general topic of how to get started in InfoSec, that's a given. In this episode, I want to talk about another way to get experience in InfoSec bug bounties. And, as you'll hear, in some cases, they'll even fly you around the world to learn how to hack. It's a through line through all 56 episodes to the hacker mind thus far.

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NopSec

MAY 21, 2020

I am sure all my infosec colleagues analyzed the report cover-to-cover and more specifically from the incident response and intrusion detection perspective. In third position the “social engineering” technique is another relevant attack vector that leads to security breaches.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2022

This section contains some interesting reading related to the state of infosec today. By correlating data from intelligence services and using this ingested information to patch or more generally improve security standing, businesses directly cripple the abilities of their potential adversaries. Recommended Reading.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

DXC Technology has over 40 years of infosec experience, most of which as HPE’s Enterprise Services. In-house and third-party red teams refine penetration testing by targeting specific attack vectors, utilizing social engineering, and avoiding detection. Also Read: Apple White Hat Hack Shows Value of Pen Testers.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Turns out, there’s something similar within the hacking community. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. No infosec Twitter or Discord. and such.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Turns out, there’s something similar within the hacking community. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. No infosec Twitter or Discord. and such.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Turns out, there’s something similar within the hacking community. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. No infosec Twitter or Discord. and such.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Writing exploits or developing infosec tools is no exception, they often need to have access to the latest libraries. We did not want to step on any other projects toes in infosec realm, or even IT in general. How did you pick the name?

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

By now you may be guessing what the psychic and the social engineer have in common. Both use techniques such as using social cues, making broad statements, and using probability to create the illusion of credibility. Similarly, a professional social engineer must exhibit confidence and never break pretext.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In this episode Luke Jennings VP of Research & Development from Push Security joins us to discuss SaaS attacks and how its possible to compromise an organization without touching a single endpoint or network.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The post The Psychic and the Social Engineer appeared first on Security Boulevard. Do you believe in psychics? Many people turn to psychics and mediums for advice or to communicate with dead loved […].

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Or maybe he's done this enough times now (which subsequent replies to this thread with his previous attempts suggest) that he's learned enough social engineering to know not to go too hard on the first approach. Maybe he forgot?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2021

There are three main types of penetrations-black box, grey box, and white box which infosec institute defines. All of these are controlled by code and computers, and most importantly-can be hacked. Penetration tests can be defined as the testing of a system to find security flaws in it. Each have various different goals and tasks.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Hacking day in and day out. record scratch].

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a few minutes I’m going to talk to a pentester who’s written a book that can help take your current skills as a sys admin and security engineer and turn them into skills needed to become a great digital pentester. She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Hacking day in and day out. record scratch].

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 16, 2024

government’s approach has historically been reactive, highlighted by the 2008 Russian hack against the Department of Defense using simple USB drives, which led to the creation of US Cyber Command. Ethan Hobart, Senior Security Consultant While at DEF CON, I attended Social Engineering AI Like You’re Piccard by Jayson E.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

Hacking websites is perhaps often underestimated yet is super interesting with all its potential for command injections and cross site scripting attacks. In fact, the word “hack” simply means to take things apart. It’s about challenging out expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Vamosi: That talk focused on the fact that there are InfoSec hackers openly working to address this problem.

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