So it turns out you don’t need any fancy password cracking software like John the Ripper or Cain and Abel you just need a handful of £5 gift vouchers for Marks and Spencers!
But we had discussed this in part before, some people will give out their passwords if you just ask, some if you offer [...]
It seems like the Phishing crews at trying to get some new ideas on how to con people into giving away their credentials and leaking info.
The latest target appears to be Google Calendar.
As always be on your guard as these scams are coming from all directions.
A few months ago, spam came to Google Calendar. Now [...]
Malware authors are getting sneaky again, in the latest turn of events they have started encrypting your files and holding them at ransom!
You have to pay up to get the ‘decryptor’ and get access to your files again. This is pretty dangerous…and cunning too. It’s not easily broken either, they are using RSA 1024-bit encryption!
Kaspersky [...]
The same old story, if you ask people for something they will most likely give it without thinking of the consequences..
Even more so if you are a pretty girl, and in this case you offer someone chocolate. Hey who doesn’t love chocolate? I have to say I don’t love it enough to give out my [...]
If I recall this is not the first time this has happened, delivering viral payloads via banner ads and flaws in scripting.
It seems that malware peddlers are getting more aggressive though, it obviously shows there is actual monetary value in infecting people and stealing their data.
A subtle form of social engineering too, by leveraging on [...]
It just goes to show, sometimes the simple things are the most effective. A box of chocolates can defeat all the most hi-tech security systems if you add a little charm.
21 million Euros of diamonds, that’s one hell of a catch.
A thief has evaded one of the world’s most expensive hi-tech security systems, and [...]
A massive online heist, some (like McAfee) claim it’s the biggest ever online sting involving a bank, it’s comes in at about half a million pounds or or $1.1 million USD.
Using some l33t0 custom trojan, it seems to be more a case of lack of education and the whole situation could have been avoided by [...]
This is an excellent case of Social Engineering, you could also consider it playing on human greed/ignorance/stupidity.
Whatever you want to label it really
USB drives are a real security risk..
We recently got hired by a credit union to assess the security of its network. The client asked that we really push hard on the [...]
There’s a good interview with Kevin Mitnick on Social Engineering.
Well afterall, that is where his skill lies, not in technical hacking.
Arrested by the FBI in 1995 and convicted of breaking into the systems of Fujitsu Siemens, Nokia and Sun Microsystems, Mitnick served five years in prison–eight months of it in solitary confinement.
In his days on [...]
I’ve seen similar figures from other organisations and countries, so the stats don’t suprise me.
My peers and I have always called this Armadillo security, hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
Firewall, IDS, etc…all protecting the exterior of the network, only edge devices, nothing inside, not much policies, not much privelege segregation, anyone inside can [...]
