What is social engineering?Social engineering is the process of manipulating people into revealing sensitive information, obtaining access to restricted areas, or performing actions that may be beneficial to an attacker. Social engineering can be carried out using...
Social engineering attacks are becoming increasingly popular amongst attackers, as a strategy to breach companies. Verizon carried out a study on social engineering attacks and found that over 43% of breaches that were documented involved some form of social...
Introduction There’s that old saying, “sometimes you need to go backwards in order to move forward”. Cyber criminals, known to operate at the bleeding edge of technological innovation to outwit their white-hat counterparts, have taken this advice and returned to...
Arguably one of the biggest threats that businesses face today is phishing. With a greater understanding of external security, the criminal element is relying on phishing attacks as a method of compromising organisations and bypassing traditional defences....
Social engineering is a service that my team and I get involved in on a fairly frequent basis. While for the most part this involves remotely trying to convince targets to click on links in emails, browse to fake login pages, download carefully constructed files which...
