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Watch Out for Vishing!
This year, the celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM) focuses on establishing a secure behavior by following four simple steps – using strong passwords and a password manager, deploying MFA wherever possible, ...
Vishing: Breaking Down Social Engineering Techniques
If you’ve read our past joint newsletter, you know that Curt and I (Shelby) approach vishing in a way that […] ...
Today’s cybersecurity health checks must identify AI based threats. Does yours?
Your organization will most likely face AI based threats in cybersecurity at some point this year. And as such, you can’t rely on outdated risk assessment methodologies that struggle to keep pace ...
The Social Engineering of Survivor
Over the span of 23 years and 44 seasons, the reality television show Survivor is perhaps one of the greatest […] ...
Vishing and the Monarch Casino Heist: Social Engineering News
Vishing attacks were prominent in Q4 2022, increasing 142% from Q3 2022 according to the February 2023 Trellix Threat report. Vishing or “voice phishing” is the act of making fraudulent phone calls ...
Effective Vishing Training
What would you say is the most effective form of cyberattack? Most of us are familiar with threats such as ransomware, which usually involves phishing emails. However, there is one cyberattack vector ...
Lessons from a Scam Artist
What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common? They all use psychology […] ...
Vishing on the Rise
Over the last few years, we have seen a concerning rise in vishing. Vishing is the practice of eliciting information […] ...
When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches
Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on ...
Social Engineering and Healthcare
Social engineering has become a larger threat to the healthcare industry in recent years. So much so that the Federal […] ...