AI social engineering is just getting started. Employers must make employees aware of these risks and train them to exercise their security intuition. Here’s how. Generative AI technology such as ...

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 ...

How AI-assisted social engineering attacks might evolve, and how cybersecurity could, and perhaps should, adapt to meet the ...

In recent years, and particularly with the rise in use of social media, cyber criminals have taken to using psychological as well as technical methods of attack. Human beings, after all, are ...

Social engineering raises some serious questions about data protection and compliance of accounting firms. Therefore, accounting firms should have measures to protect their IT assets against this ...

In the two preceding columns, John Orlando discussed the ethical dimensions of social engineering in penetration testing. Today I want to look at how to use social engineering effectively for ...

When Alethe Denis conducts a social engineering attack as part of a red team exercise, the Bishop Fox security consultant often presents the targets with the exact email template that her team intends ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

When was the last time you had to threaten to shoot an unauthorized executive who was demanding access to a secure area? Read on for a real-life story and an important lesson on effective security ...