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Resetting the Passwords for CIA Director John Brennan and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
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Tagged 2015, CIA, CIA Director John Brennan, email, email fraud, hacked, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Security Awareness, social engineering
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Telemarketer Payback with Social Engineering
Social engineering is a very useful skill to have. But please use your powers with the highest level of ethics. See image below.
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Tagged Information Technology Security Awareness, lol, social engineering, telemarketer
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Scottrade Breach
“Cybercriminals had unauthorized access to our network for a period of several months between late 2013 and early 2014” According to a Cyber Security Alert page on Scottrade, Federal investigators found indicators that prove Scottrade’s network and systems was used. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, 2014, 2015, breach, cybercrime, hacked, information security, phishing, Scottrade, social engineering
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Don’t Be a Victim of Tech Support Scams
This year alone, an estimated 3.3 million people in the United States will pay more than $1.5 billion to scammers. Attorney General Bob Ferguson and experts from Microsoft explain how scammers pretending to help you with computer problems can steal … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, scam, scammers, scamming, Security Awareness, social engineering, vishing
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Hijacked Satellite (Download Links) used to Steal Data From Thousands of Computers
The Turla APT group (we think), who are responsible for the Epic Turla cyber-espionage operation, pushing malware to hundreds of computers in more than 45 countries, have hijacked downstream links from satellites to hide their command and control servers. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, APT, command and control, phishing, satellite, social engineering, Turla, watering hole
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Here’s Why Physical Security Walkthroughs Are a Great Test
If you act like you belong, it’s not often you get questioned about your actions. This has been proven time and time again at many places with a lot of turnaround. This has especially worked well for a recent Walmart … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, fraud, Physical Security, Security Awareness, social engineering
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Business Email Compromise Leads to $737,000 Transfer to China
The FBI classifies “phishing that leads to loss” as Business Email Compromise (BEC). In a recently released story that closely matches the BEC hack in Omaha I wrote about back in February, another company fell victim to a spearphishing attack … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cybercrime, FBI, fraud, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, vishing
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Phishing and Vishing Attacks are Up
With the recent OPM hack… I use hack loosely because of this. A lot of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) was stolen. About 32 million records. The PII consisted of Names, Addresses, Social Security Numbers, Dates of Birth, places one lived … Continue reading
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Tagged malware, OPM, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, vishing
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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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Social Engineering Fraud Videos
Though this is an advertisement for consulting services (at the very end), this video has two great examples of how fraud is committed through social engineering. Here is a talk from a DerbyCon that Jamison gives a full presentation on … Continue reading
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Tagged Chubb, Derbycon, Jamison Scheeres, Security Awareness, social engineering, video tutorial
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