social engineering

How to steal a million (OK, half a million), or what happened to the Boca Juniors

Using only publicly available sources, how much can you find out about someone?

Many vulnerabilities exist in the mind. How to neutralize them.

The winter sales season is the hottest time of the year for shoppers and financial phishers. Be careful!

Twitter cryptocurrency scams are becoming more and more advanced and convincing, with scammers using new techniques and some heavy artillery.

Instagram hacking has been on the rise lately. Here’s what you need to know to avoid losing your precious account.

The Rakhni encrypting ransomware, known since 2013, is now trying its hand at mining Monero.

What is spear phishing, and how can you stay safe from it?

These incidents sound like a detective story, but are taken from real life. It’s almost impossible to avoid targeted hacking and here we explain why is that so.

Over the weekend, Snapchat was compromised via a phishing email pretending to be from company CEO.

Top-level IT security pros believe there’s a significant, unaddressed gap between enterprise security priorities and the serious threats that keep them awake at night.

Beware of phishing, malware, spam and other online scams based on the extremely popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Is social engineering beatable? Just as much as you can beat any other kind of deceit. Actually, social engineering is about “exploiting flaws in a human hardware”.

Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher, David Jacoby talks about countering social engineering in an office environment. Protecting your company from attack is easy if you take the right steps.

Social engineering, sometimes called the science and art of human hacking, has become quite popular in recent years given the exponential growth of social networks, email and other forms of