social engineering

Inexpensive, no-fuss Burning Man tickets for sale online. Just one problem: They’re fake.

Cybercriminals are attacking small online stores, trying to trick their employees into opening malicious files.

One explanation of phishing success lies in a known psychological effect.

Charles Perrault explains how hired hackers use social engineering and watering hole attacks for political purposes.

Social engineering augmented with machine-learning algorithms can deceive even high-ranking executives.

Using persuasion instead of viruses: How scammers talk people into granting remote access to their computers.

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

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?

Experience shows that even Internet old-timers fail to protect themselves from targeted hacking. As our everyday life is becoming more and more connected to the Internet and other networks, online

We talk a lot about phishing and how dangerous it is. At times we feel like we may talk about it too much to where people simply say, “yeah, yeah.

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

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. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQMkQkMmSE&feature=youtu.be]

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