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How Social Engineering Affected Tesla
In totally uncool moves, two Tesla owned accounts were hijacked via social engineering: A bad guy called AT&T customer support and pretended to be a Tesla employee. This person then demanded all phone calls to the company be forwarded to a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hacked, hackers, Security Awareness, social engineering, Tesla, Third Party Assessments
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Seven Deadly Employee Sins – How Companies Get Compromised
The average person thinks that companies get hacked by super hackers with amazing knowledge on computer systems and can break encryption by staring at jumbled code like John Forbes Nash Jr. in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. It may be … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hackers, Security Awareness
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Ring! Ring! Yes, This is the I.R.S! NOT!
Criminals have been calling taxpayers and insisting they must “immediately give up their personal information or make a payment,” Don’t fall for it! It’s a scam! The I.R.S. will never call as their method is to send old fashioned mail. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cybercrime, fraud, hackers, IRS, privacy, risk, scam, Security Awareness, social engineering
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Uber Accounts, $1
Stolen Uber Customer accounts are for sale on the Dark Web for the low price of $1.00. Though most of the credit cards are masked, the last four and the expiration date are still available. The rest of the data … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, breach, cyber risk, dark web, hackers, passwords, privacy, risk, uber
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Fake Error Message, SSL Cert Invalid
Bad guys are putting up fake error messages with hopes that victims will call them for help. Don’t fall for it!
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Tagged Fake SSL Warning, hackers, online trickery, Security Awareness, social engineering
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Men who Performed the Largest Data Breaches in History: Arrested
The Department of Justice reports, three men operating from Vietnam, the Netherlands, and Canada are accused of carrying out the largest data breach of names and email addresses in the history of the Internet. Two of the hackers, Viet Quoc … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, David-Manuel Santos Da Silva, email service providers, Giang Hoang Vu, hacked, hackers, hacking, spam, Viet Quoc Nguyen
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From Russia with Love Letters
A Russian team allegedly breached the Sony entertainment company’s network by sending spear phishing emails containing a remote access Trojan (RAT) to Sony employees in India, Russia and other Asian countries. Once they had access to the computers of these … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hackers, phishing, remote access trojan, russian, Security Awareness, sony, Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Spear Phishing
Cyber thieves stole nearly $215 million from businesses in the last 14 months using email scams. Once a high level exec has his or her email compromised, the bad guys lurk, learn the schedules, learn the business, learn the business … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Brian Krebs, cybercrime, email, hackers, phishing, Security Awareness, spoof
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Under 11 Minutes to Crack WiFi for 7 Year Old
Seven-year-old Betsy Davis, using only youtube videos for knowledge, was able to find out how to hack the controlled environment’s public WiFi. She set up a rogue access point for a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack, which allowed her to steal data … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, 7 year old, Betsy Davis, hackers, hacking, kid hacker, man-in-the-middle, wifi
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770,000 Records From One of Australia’s Largest Travel Insurance Companies
Around the number of 770,000 records of personal information consisting of travel insurance clients, names, phone numbers, email addresses, travel dates and prices for policies was stolen around December 18th. Aussie Travel Cover notified 3rd party agents, but did not … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, breach, Google Dorking, hacked, hackers, owasp, privacy, sql injection
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