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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]
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]
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]
A Multi-Level Defense Against Social Engineering
White Papers Social engineering -- the process of deceiving people into giving away access or confidential information -- is a formidable threat to most secured networks. While there is plenty of information on social engineering, the threat is considered very...
[March 21, 2004, 23:00]
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 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 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]
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]
Emerging Social Engineering In The Wireless Classroom
White Papers Code It! fosters mathematics learning environments where pre-algebra students use handheld technologies to confidently and enjoyably explore and learn about functions. The resources developed - server-based and handheld software and paper-based...
[August 2, 2007, 0:00]
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]
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]
Microsoft Denies Flaw In Vista
News Microsoft said that these attacks rely on social-engineering techniques to be successful. Based on our initial investigation, Microsoft can confirm that these variants do not take advantage of a security vulnerability, rather they rely on social...
[December 4, 2006, 13:16]
Virus Dresses Up As A Naked Jennifer Lopez
News The other factor that makes it dangerous, Demogines said, is that it uses a "social engineering" technique that could prove effective. The term social engineering refers to the practice of coming up with intriguing e-mail subject lines to fool the...
[June 1, 2001, 8:56]
Seasonal Virus Is Unwelcome Present
News It uses familiar social engineering tactics to entice recipients to double click on the attachment, before mailing itself and the victim's contact list to everyone in the contact's address book. We have seen 4,000 copies of such viruses this week...
[December 19, 2001, 18:07]
