SYDNEY — Properly trained staff, not technology, is the best protection against social engineering attacks on sensitive information, according to security consultant and celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick ...
Workday has confirmed that it fell victim to a wide-ranging social engineering campaign that allowed hackers to access information at one of its third-party vendors. The hackers work by impersonating ...
Keen to the importance of not simply clicking on any email I receive in my inbox, I recently received a message with a subject line I could not resist: “Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training.” For ...
The recent hack of 1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets was carried out by compromising a CoinStats employee. On June 22, the cryptocurrency portfolio manager CoinStats temporarily suspended its services ...
A major crypto theft has sent shockwaves through the industry, with $330 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) stolen. Experts say this was a social engineering attack and not a technical hack. The stolen ...
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) has become a cornerstone of access security, offering an extra layer of defense against cyber threats. However, despite its effectiveness, MFA is not impervious to ...
It’s no surprise firewalls and encryption are instrumental to help defend against cyberattacks, but those tools can’t defend against one of the largest cybersecurity threats: people. Social ...
Famed hacker and social engineer Kevin Mitnick, who was at one time one of the most wanted cyber criminals in the world, has died peacefully at the age of 59 from complications arising from pancreatic ...