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Article | 22/09/2011 Bigger isn't better when it comes to social engineering attacks
When it comes to social engineering attacks, larger companies attract more of them, and when they are victimized it costs more per incident, according...
Article | 22/09/2011 Open this malware or I'll sue you
The latest social engineering trick to get victims to open malicious email attachments accuses them of being spammers and threatens to sue them if the...
Article | 9/03/2011 Malvertising continues to pound legitimate websites
In the last three months of 2010 attackers managed to serve 3 million malicious advertising, or malvertising, impressions every day. That's the headli...
Article | 6/09/2010 Women did well on Defcon social engineering test
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 ...
Article | 3/08/2010 How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask
A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering would...
Article | 8/04/2010 Facebook takes steps to deal with gift card scams
Like many other Facebook users Jeff Crites heard of the US$1,000 Best Buy gift-card offer last month from a friend, a Web savvy director of social med...
Article | 1/03/2010 Britain all atweet over Twitter phishing attack
The latest phishing attack on Twitter users swept the U.K. overnight claiming several prominent users.
Article | 1/05/2009 Hacker: I broke into Twitter
For the second time this year, a hacker has gained administrative access to a Twitter employee's account.
Article | 30/04/2009 Phishers hit Facebook with scam messages
Facebook users were hit Wednesday with a phishing attack that tried to steal names and passwords from users of the popular social network.
Article | 1/03/2009 US convicts first foreigner of phishing
A 23-year-old Romanian man has become the first foreigner to be convicted by a U.S. court for phishing.

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