Tech Republic Big Data

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Recruiters and anyone else involved in hiring processes should be knowledgeable about this social engineering attack threat. Get the details.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Social engineering is how the bad guys get employees to say too much Image Credit: Alexandre Formagio. These days they use a more sophisticated attack: social engineering. What Is Social Engineering? So just exactly what is this thing that we call “social engineering” ?

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 29, 2020

People, like computers, can be hacked using a process called social engineering, and there's a good chance a cybersecurity attack on your organization could start with this technique.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 23, 2020

IT security teams need to educate employees about the psychological techniques cybercriminals often use in social engineering attacks.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The hackers rely heavily on social engineering tactics to distribute the malware. Uncovered by cybersecurity firm Group-IB , GoldPickaxe exists in both Android and iOS versions and was developed by a suspected Chinese hacking group called "GoldFactory."

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 24, 2020

People, like computers, can be hacked using a process called social engineering, and there's a good chance a cybersecurity attack on your organization could start with this technique.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Popular email marketing service MailChimp recently fell victim to another data breach, this time caused by a successful social engineering attack on its employees and contractors.

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Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Organisations need to move from awareness of the risk of social engineering to empowering employees to understand and recognise the threat to protect themselves and the company, says Jenny Radcliffe

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Social engineering is allowing cybercriminals the way in. Learn how to lock that door.

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CTOvision

JUNE 28, 2016

Social engineering is one of the most problematic attack techniques to combat. User education is most effective at stopping a social engineer. Users who are aware of the potential for social engineering attacks and learn to recognize them can use simple methods to thwart these attacks successfully.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

F5 says an artificial intelligence war could start between generative AI-toting bad actors and enterprises guarding data with AI. Australian IT teams will be caught in the crossfire.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps engineers have much to offer their organizations beyond developing CI/CD pipelines, configuring infrastructure as code, enabling AIOps capabilities, and other engineering practices that align with dev and ops objectives.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Picnic offers a preventative solution to social engineering attacks which allows them to see what data an attacker could gather on their employees from social media, data brokers, breach repositories, and the dark web. Read More.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Frank Abagnale is probably the most famous low-tech hacker since Son’ka the Golden Hand and the man who stole the Mona Lisa, Vincenzo Peruggia. Abagnale famously impersonated various professions, including a doctor and a pilot, to help facilitate his financial scams where he used false identities to forge checks and cash them in.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2021

On a recent SecureWorld Sessions podcast episode, Social Engineering: Hacking Humans , host Bruce Sussman spoke with Christopher Hadnagy, an entrepreneur and author of five books about social engineering and hacking the human. 1 How do you define social engineering?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The company says an unauthorized third party socially engineered a customer support employee while talking on the phone, obtaining access to some customer support systems. The popular trading app Robinhood has just been hit with a major data breach affecting millions of its users.

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IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From supercharged social engineering to AI-powered PCs, explore how AI is reshaping cybersecurity this year. The post 3 Significant Ways AI Can Impact Cybersecurity This Year appeared first on Spiceworks.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2024

They are all former Facebook engineering leaders who worked at the social media giant more than a decade ago. He later did engineering stints with Seattle startups including Elevator, Poppy, TraceMe, and Mason, and has backed Seattle companies as an angel investor.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 26, 2021

According to Google's Threat Analysis Group, state-sponsored North Korean hackers are targeting security researchers via social engineering. Writing in a blog post, the group says that the campaign specifically targeted researchers working on vulnerability research and development.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Government-backed hackers based in North Korea are targeting individual security researchers through a number of means including a “novel social engineering method,” Google’s Threat Analysis Group is reporting. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 17, 2021

Social engineering tricks are constantly used by threat actors to gain access to an individual's account or even an entire organization's system. SecureWorld recently wrapped up one of its Remote Sessions to talk about the issue of social engineering, including best practices and how to avoid being fooled by a cyber criminal.

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2023

To do so, Gearhouse is relying on a two-sided business in which it serves as a both a social meeting place and a gear rental spot. The startup was founded by Evan Maynard , a former engineer at Kent, Wash.-based based Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Jeff Bezos. in a former AT&T Lounge location.

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GeekWire

MARCH 6, 2024

A day after a Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, LinkedIn suffered a similar fate on Tuesday, as the social media platform for business professionals went down. Many more simply turned to a functioning social media site — X?! — ” The Microsoft-owned platform boasts about 1 billion members worldwide. .”

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In a move that captured the public’s attention in March 2023, OpenAI shook the tech world with a fascinating job posting for a killswitch engineer. This role, geared toward overseeing safety measures for their upcoming AI model GPT-5, has sparked a firestorm of discussions across social media, with Twitter and Reddit leading the charge.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A security awareness program backed by multi-factor authentication can help protect your critical assets, says NordVPN Teams.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 28, 2023

Blind, the anonymous social network for verified corporate employees, released new compensation data for software engineers working at Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Meta and Google offer the highest compensation, as measured by both job level and experience, though Amazon pays a lot for top engineers.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Identity-based and social engineering attacks still take center stage, according to the CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 5, 2013

The New York Times has an interesting article titled Engineering Serendipity which looks at the some of the ways companies are trying to create felicitous and unexpected connections between their staff. and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Business email compromise scheme and social engineering. Social engineering—in person—was the next part of the scheme. Those are some of the highlights, now let's look at a few specifics. Prosecutors say Ghaleb Alaumary, a native of Ontario Canada, confessed to two specific conspiracies. Too many do.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 16, 2024

The stolen data puts customers at risk of social engineering attacks to trick them into revealing credentials, carrying out financial fraud, etc. A third-party telephony provider of Cisco suffered a breach wherein they hacked into and downloaded message logs for authentication SMS messages sent for Duo Security.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Coinbase is currently one of the largest and most accessible trading platforms available to cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Unfortunately, this makes the exchange a high-profile target for bad actors with malicious intent.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 6, 2024

AI is a key component in software engineering development. As AI is implemented in a range of systems and for a variety of purposes, it is the indispensable role of software engineers to create and maintain such systems. However, it lacks the critical thinking of a software engineer and the insight to solve problems. What is AI?

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2017

Social engineering is the strongest method of attack against the enterprise’s weakest vulnerability, its people. In 2015, social engineering became the No. These successful social engineering methods often use phishing and malware. Criminal hackers recognize this fact.

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Tech Republic Big Data

APRIL 1, 2022

What if tech companies had to release data about how algorithms work and software engineers had to take social science courses in college? The post 4 ideas for understanding and managing the power of algorithms on social media appeared first on TechRepublic.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2021

But in looking at Facebook’s engineering practices — the way the company makes stuff — the book examines the digital DNA of the social network, sheds new light on its most infamous motto, and explains the inner workings of a company that wants to reshape the human experience, again.

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