Congratulations to the hundreds of victims and to Charlotte Laws: the extremely tenacious mother of one victim who wouldn’t back down.
Tag Archives: Social Engineering
Psychological profile-based security – could it work?
Fujitsu’s working on technology that can assign security countermeasures based on a user’s psychological profile and risk tendencies – warning them ahead of time, before an attack can be carried out successfully.
People happily give away their (bad) passwords to TV reporter
Say hello to the people in the street who show us how social engineering works. Hint: say you’re from Jimmy Kimmel, sound interested, and ask about their pet!
Syrian Electronic Army uses Taboola ad to hack Reuters (again)
Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the hackers’ control. It highlights the need for websites to consider security in a broad context and to not rely solely on traditional server-based defenses.