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Use threat modeling as a training vector.
Learn from Jeff Bezos’ mistake
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Alleged Hacked the Phone of World’s Richest Man Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos.
Bezos hack connected to Khashoggi murder and the Washington Post's subsequent media coverage.
On SIM swapping.
Evil Week is winding down, but that doesn’t mean your evil deeds need come to an end. To paraphrase Tracy Jordan, you can live every week like it’s Evil Week.
A British researcher has uncovered an ironic, gaping security hole in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – right of access requests.
QR code scams are still popular. We should learn to treat QR codes like we do any other unrecognizable URL: with suspicion on where it will take us.
Catfishing.
She is a social engineer and a master of disguise who is paid to think like a criminal in order to "hack" the human psyche.
A request to interview via Hangouts was odd, then came questions about electronic deposits.
A social media post from one of a company's interns was all this people hacker needed to enter a secure area with a counterfeit employee badge. Learn tips for welcoming new employees securely.
I recently ran across a tweet by the very insightful Fernando Montenegro in which he makes an interesting point about a phenomenon we occasionally run into while examining social media profiles ass…
Whether you’re caught by a catfish or an online romance scammer, both use similar techniques to play with your emotions.
The already suspicious breach of Secret Service security just got even more fishy.
A Chinese woman was arrested for sneaking into Trump's "Winter White House," a reminder of how exposed the president's private club is to physical and cybersecurity risks.
Biggest BEC ever.
In several cases, a stalker impersonated a US Marshal and reported a fake kidnapping in order to get telecom companies to give them real-time cell phone location data.