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5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks [with Examples]

SecureWorld News

He writes about this in his book, "Ghost in the Wires": "I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a system administrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support. Mitnick says his favorite emotional tool was fear.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. Each houses an IBM z15 system. M&T Bank.

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FBI: Credential Stuffing Leads to Millions in Fraudulent Transfers

SecureWorld News

Here is an example of a recent credential stuffing attack investigated by the FBI. A mid-sized financial institution reported its online banking platform received a "constant barrage" of login attempts using a variety of credential pairs, indicating that the attack was using bots. Credential stuffing attacks lead to millions in damage.

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What is data science? Transforming data into value

CIO Business Intelligence

They also need big data architects to translate requirements into systems, data engineers to build and maintain data pipelines, developers who know their way around Hadoop clusters and other technologies, and system administrators and managers to tie everything together. Data science is generally a team discipline.

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

CTOvision

Information Security: Cyber Threats and Data Breaches Illustrate Need for Stronger Controls across Federal Agencies, July 08, 2015 GAO Info Security (Today) - What GAO FoundFederal systems face an evolving array of cyber-based threats. SRA International, Inc. announced that its holding company, SRA Companies, Inc.,

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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem

Phil Windley

Unified user experience —Part of the beauty of natural identity systems is that we don’t have to switch apps or learn an entirely new way of interacting for each context. As an example, consider an automobile. The bank requires proof that Alice is employed and makes at least $70,000 per year.

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