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Social Engineering: Techniques That Can Bypass Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to explain how Social Engineering can defeat Intrusion Detection (ID) Systems. Companies and organizations are still not fully addressing or understanding the issue of Social Engineering.
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
MSDN Webcast: Digital Blackbelt Series: Social Engineering and Mitigating System Vulnerability (Level 200)
White Papers Most clever technical attacks begin with some assistance from social engineering. This webcast defines social engineering and reviews a number of real-world hacks that began with social engineering efforts.
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Greatest security risk: Social engineering, says Gartner
News The greatest security risk facing large companies and individual Internet users over the next 10 years will be the increasingly sophisticated use of social engineering to bypass IT security defences, according to analyst firm Gartner.
[November 1, 2004, 7:39]
Mac users 'must wise up to social engineering'
News The biggest security vulnerability could lie in the fact that OS X users aren't "trained" to monitor and identify social engineering tactics that have been used against Windows-based users for years. Mark Borrie, IT security manager at New Zealand...
[February 21, 2006, 9:20]
Mitnick warns on dangers of social engineering
News Many companies invest heavily in security technologies to protect their networks, but Mitnick was quick to point out that even the tightest technological barriers never stopped him; rather, some carefully planned social engineering -- or even a...
[March 4, 2005, 11:15]
Mitnick teaches 'social engineering'
News As] the media characterises social engineering, hackers will call up and ask for a password," Mitnick said. Social engineering is basically pulling a con job, hacker-style. Through social engineering, I gained the ability to obtain any number...
[July 18, 2000, 11:14]
Palin's email account hacked via social engineering
News The hack appears to have been accomplished through little more than social engineering, the process of acquiring personal information through social manipulation. Details describing how someone hacked into the Yahoo Mail account of Republican vice...
[September 19, 2008, 15:04]
Mac users 'must wise up to social engineering'
Talkback How did this author come to this conclusion? I disagree. I'm not living in denial, nor have I. Nor do any of my other Mac friends, relatives or colleagues. True, I / we have not had to intervene with malicious software on my Mac like I have with my...
[February 22, 2006, 11:02]
Mac users 'must wise up to social engineering'
Talkback Comments such as the ones I've read here from Mac users more than reinforce the writer's discussion. If these people are a representative cross-section of the Mac community, then I can understand why 2006 has been touted as the year that the Mac...
[February 22, 2006, 20:40]
Mac users 'must wise up to social engineering'
Talkback It's not a platform issue, it's a social issue. Wow, complete FUD. My father/mother would be every bit as susceptible to attacks in this genre if they were running OSX versus Windows. You can't even argue that somehow OSX users are more naive.
[February 21, 2006, 18:49]
Mac users 'must wise up to social engineering'
Talkback This writier should work for FOX news as the best news agency to create stories when there are none using scare tactics. Are Mac Users so Naive that we do not see or hear the thousands of reports about viruses on PC on a daily basis.
[February 21, 2006, 15:39]
Mac users 'must wise up to social engineering'
Talkback Actually lets be clear here, The LeapA only can propagate through a LAN network with Bonjour enabled using iChat (not the default). In fact your only chance of being infected is by downloading and executing the file yourself.
[February 21, 2006, 21:40]
10 common social engineering ploys... and how to protect against them
White Papers Many computer security problems involve exploitation of employees by social engineers. Just as talented hackers can use their programming skills to exploit applications, operating systems, and protocols to get inside your company's network...
[May 25, 2006, 3:17]
Hackers steal easily guessed passwords
News Hackers are increasingly resorting to social engineering techniques to obtain confidential passwords, as businesses become better at locking down and patching their computer networks. He said that social-engineering techniques used by hackers to...
[October 23, 2003, 13:05]
McAfee: How cybercrooks get under your skin
News Security firm McAfee has said that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated social-engineering techniques, and that IT managers need to make users aware of the psychological tricks that make the techniques work.
[June 26, 2007, 13:43]
Human firewalls are a must, says Mitnick
News At a social engineering prevention workshop in Sydney this week, Mitnick explained that this group should be trained in the art of social engineering, be able to investigate any potential [security] attacks and respond in an efficient and...
[April 14, 2005, 10:15]
Phone phishing attack hits US
News IT managers have been warned to alert their staff to the attack, which uses social engineering techniques to try to trick users to the phishing site, according to security vendor Websense. Basically they're taking a social engineering attack vector...
[June 23, 2006, 17:05]
Debunking Some Linux Myths
Blog Comment Sure, if linux was as prevalent as Windows there would be more attacks but they will not succeed to infect the systems other than by social engineering. The problems with Windows, it will execute a file based on its extension but with Linux/unix...
[October 26, 2009, 15:51]
Symbian worm in the wild
Blog Both pieces of malware still rely on social engineering to propagate. Like Commwarrior, Beselo worms spread via MMS and Bluetooth using social engineering to trick users into installing an incoming SIS application installation file.
[January 25, 2008, 17:25]
Kevin Mitnick: The great pretender
News Following his run in with law, Mitnick now puts his powers of persuasion to good, running a company that advises businesses on avoiding social engineering attacks. A: It's a substantial problem - a lot of malware is associated with social engineering.
[June 14, 2006, 11:40]
