Results for 'social engineering'
Hacking your head: how cybercriminals use social engineering
January 20, 2016 - Social engineering is nothing new. It’s a tool of psychological manipulation that’s been used since the dawn of man. Why? To...
Patching the End User: How to Recognize the Social Engineering In Scams
June 11, 2013 - Scammers use psychological manipulation to defraud their victims, so it is extremely useful to be able to identify the social engineering elements...
Social media bots
Short bio A bot, also known as a zombie, automatically performs a task or set of tasks usually under the command...
Gas, a positive social network for teens (no, really)
October 21, 2022 - A new social network is currently in the news, billed as a positive space for teens to enjoy themselves. I’m all...
Criminals socially engineer their way to bank details with fake arrest warrants
August 22, 2022 - When an organization experiences a massive data breach, it knows (at least) that it needs to inform the federal government about...
How social media mistakes can impact cybersecurity
October 26, 2021 - We talked to members of our Malware Removal Support team and asked them what kind of problems they get asked to...
Facebook scams: Bad ads, bogus grants, and fake tickets lurk on social media giant
November 11, 2019 - We recently highlighted new steps Instagram is taking to try and clamp down on scammers sending fake messages on their platform....
Governments increasingly eye social media meltdown
May 22, 2019 - These are trying times for social networks, with endless reports of harassment and abuse not being tackled and many users leaving...
Ellen DeGeneres giveaway scam spreading on social media
April 15, 2019 - Scammers are pushing multiple fake Facebook profiles of Ellen DeGeneres, popular US TV show host and producer, with the goal of...
Labs survey finds privacy concerns, distrust of social media rampant with all age groups
March 5, 2019 - Before Cambridge Analytica made Facebook an unwilling accomplice to a scandal by appropriating and misusing more than 50 million users’ data, the...
