social engineering

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 …

Highly targeted social engineering attacks have become the new vector of choice for adaptive persistent adversaries as an undetected entry point to enterprise networks, with …

BitDefender discovered a spam wave using the Romanian president’s image to help spread malware. The unsolicited e-mail relies on a classic combination of social …

The top five industries vulnerable to cybercrime include travel, education, financial services, government services and IT services, according to KnowBe4. Using the Inc.com …

From poisoned Google image search results to poisoned answers to legitimate questions on Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers and public forums, malware peddlers are determined …

Facebook scammers know that in order to keep users falling for their scams, they have to use a variety of approaches. For example, there was a time where rogue applications …