There has also been an increase in scam attempts through automated phone calls. The FTC began receiving reports of scammers posing as government officials during the COVID-19 pandemic, using the promise of unemployment benefits to extract Social Security numbers, private bank account numbers, or ot...
An insider threat can happen when someone close to an organisation with authorised access misuses that access to negatively impact the organisation’s critical information or systems. This person does not necessarily need to be an employee—third-party vendors, contractors, and partners could also po...
Like all low-latency anonymity networks, Tor is not perfect. It cannot and does not attempt to protect against monitoring traffic at the boundaries of the Tor network (traffic entering and exiting). Nor can it prevent traffic confirmation (end-to-end correlation). Tor is susceptible to the fo...
How does doxxing work? Doxxers collect breadcrumbs about people scattered across the internet, then assemble those small pieces of information to reveal the real person behind an alias. Breadcrumb data can include the target’s name, physical address, email address, phone number, and more. Doxxer...
For example, AI’s potential for pattern recognition could be useful to cybercriminals wishing to deliver more effective social engineering attacks. Alternatively, reverse engineering an AI system could reveal sensitive data. To combat this trend, organizations should embrace the adoption of AI ...
Another common tactic in many spear phishing examples is to compromise a business email account, and use it to pose as a senior employee with the power to request direct deposit changes, wire transfers to fraudulent companies, or W2 information. Social engineering and data breaches will reveal th...
app jeopardized. If the user with a high number of privileges is hacked, hackers can do an unimaginable level of damage to the app. Similarly, an app should also not ask for privileges on a device for functions it does not require: for example, privileges to read SMS, DCIM folder, etc...
How does an actor’s not-clone get a conspicuous TV job without a unique social security number? How does everyone who uses “the substance” know how to stick what in where? There’s minimal instructions included in the box but apparently it’s like some kind of morphic knowledge for ric...
Breaches that reveal sensitive information threaten individuals' privacy, damage organizations' reputations, and disrupt operations. Vulnerabilities are exploited not just by hackers, but also by employees. A holistic data security approach is required to defend sensitive information. In addition to protecti...
The exposure of this type of information can hamstring company projects, give competitors insight into business operations, and reveal internal culture and personalities. The bigger the company, the more interest there is in this type of data. Trade Secrets This is the most dangerous thing to be...