social engineering

48% of enterprises have been victims of social engineering attacks, experiencing 25 or more such attacks in the past two years at a average cost of over £15,000 per …

Showing considerable resourcefulness in their attempt to trick Internet users, fake AV peddlers have begun targeting Skype users with an unexpected call. “Attention: …

43 percent of global companies think they have an effective information security strategy in place and are proactively executing their plans, placing them in the category of …

A sophisticated, seemingly broadly orchestrated online scam that promises bogus prizes like iPads or gift cards in order to dupe Internet users into giving up their …

A group of security researchers has developed a proof-of-concept Java-based tool that could allow malicious individuals to automatize the syphoning of information from a …

Typosquatting is a well-known phenomena on the Internet. Most users have – at one point or another – misspelled the URL of the site they wanted to visit and were …

This book teaches you the “how-to” of social engineering. Taking a hands-on approach, you will learn everything from the field-tested methods for reading body …

Most of the recent high-profile cyber attacks against corporations and government organizations have one thing in common – they all started with a successful social …

A very complex and likely very efficient fake AV spreading campaign has been spotted targeting Facebook users. It starts with users being apparently contacted by one of their …

The last few months have seen a lot of cyber attacks aimed at U.S. military contractors and they are still ongoing. F-Secure researchers have recently spotted an email …

Scammers continue to take advantage of the great interest raised by the introduction of Google+ and have begun tricking Facebook users into giving them access to their …

2011 has been a busy year so far for cyber criminals. No one can say IT security incidents went under reported, they have certainly been prominent in the headlines. HBGary …