My friend and colleague Dr. John Orlando helped create the Master of Science in Information Assurance at Norwich University and has been teaching ethics courses for many years. He recently wrote a ...

Social engineering techniques are often crucial to executing penetration tests. But which methods cross the ethical line - or even venture into the dangerous territory of illegal? Social engineering ...

According to Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer's CEO, the test was held against the backdrop of several experts opining that social engineering attacks can be defeated using proper user education. "As a ...

Kingston City Council in Victoria recently conducted a social engineering experiment to see how its staff would react to a stranger trying to gain access to the server room; the exercise revealed, and ...

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 ...

Social engineering plays an important part in a significant number of cyberattacks, however big, small or sophisticated the crime is. In fact, as ESET's senior researcher David Harley has previously ...

Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers in a recent contest only five of them refused to give up any corporate information whatsoever. And guess what? All five ...

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 ...

What is the purpose of social engineering? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Dr.

The Monitoring Service SVZ offers an educational tool to identify manipulative language and test resistance to digital lures during training sessions, at home, and in the workplace. The Monitoring ...

Only five Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers refused to give up any corporate information -- all were women Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social ...