Professional ethical social engineering testers can sometimes cross ethical and legal boundaries, which can have significant consequences, warned Sharon Conheady, director at First Defence Information ...

Physical social engineering has become a big play with social engineers, penetration testers, and red teamers. Gaining access to internal network resources can be compared to walking past the firewall ...

A detailed guide for testing your organization's insiders and their vulnerability to a social-engineering attack via a targeted spear-phishing campaign Investing the time and money into guarding your ...

When Alethe Denis conducts a social engineering attack as part of a red team exercise, the Bishop Fox security consultant often presents the targets with the exact email template that her team intends ...

Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets. Of the 135 people Fortune 500 ...

Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets. Of the 135 Fortune 500 employees ...

In recent years, and particularly with the rise in use of social media, cyber criminals have taken to using psychological as well as technical methods of attack. Human beings, after all, are ...

Social engineering is often described as a cybersecurity issue, but that framing increasingly misses the point. The most effective social engineering attacks today do not rely on technical exploits or ...

Social engineering is the very common practice of exploiting a human element to initiate and/or execute a cyberattack. Human weakness and ignorance present such easy targets that fully 82% of the ...

Social engineering takes advantage of the emotions and fallibility of end users rather than relying on technical hacking techniques — and it represents a massive threat to modern organizations.