Tag Archives: social engineering

Social Engineering

No, not that Taylor Swift, this Taylor Swift.

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Conmen Evolved

Unless you are completely off the grid and don’t even read newspapers, it is hard to avoid the data breaches announced in the news. It’s not just techie news anymore either, with the big named news shows on the television … Continue reading

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The Postal Service Suffered a Cybersecurity Breach

The data of 800,000 people potentially compromised for employee and customer personal information, including addresses, Social Security numbers and emails. The USPS is working with the FBI, Justice Department and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team to investigate the breach. … Continue reading

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Breaches, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities in October 2014

This might be the longest one I’ve done so far: List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October http://t.co/AtYQ3vBJEa — Lewis Morgan (@LewisMorgan_) October 28, 2014 Payment information breach Dairy Queen Data breach hits 395 stores ‘Big K’ raided … Continue reading

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Reuben Paul, an 8-year-old Cyber Professional and CEO

An extension from this old post, the 8 year old, identified as Reuben Paul, has grown in fame. He demonstrates in this video, some of his mastery of hacking tools and his thought processes. Here is an article/interview from Tripwire.

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2-Factor on LinkedIn

If you use LinkedIn, like I do. Enable 2-factor authentication to keep your professional profile and contacts secured. How embarrassing would it be if you are advertising yourself as a security and privacy professional and someone gets into your account … Continue reading

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Social Engineering – How to Scam Your Way into Anything

A great video by Brian Brushwood, from Scam School, on Social Engineering. The video quotes the following books:

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Social Engineering Fraud by Chubb Insurance

A great little video on Social Engineering fraud.

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Embed HTML Web App for Social Engineering Attack

In this video, Armitage shows how to create a tiny web application that can be hosted that will allow a user to install a beacon. Once the beacon is installed, numerous bad things can happen as you can see in … Continue reading

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Get Comfortable: @SecureNinjaTV Free Training

Going through my twitter feed, I enjoyed an embedded secureninjatv video and then decided to check out their youtube page. I’ve embedded it for your convenience. There are about 22 videos in the playlist embedded above. Get comfortable, take frequent … Continue reading

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