If you survey your co-workers, chances are high you will find they have received a phishing email at some point. It’s not surprising since phishing is the number one cause of breaches in the world, with an average of more than 46,000 new phishing sites created per day, or nearly 1.5 million each month (Webroot
“Most scams work because victims are successfully convinced the scam is real. Thus, victims give criminals their information more often than it is maliciously stolen. A scammer’s main goal is to convince you to hand over your information voluntarily, as opposed to using forceful intimidation or threats.” “While hostility is one social engineering methodology, expert
Yesterday I posted a short piece about DARPA’s Plan X project which was covered in an article over at Wired. It sounds on the face of it like a very problematic plan to spend a lot of money, and I pointed out a few of those issues briefly. However, shortly after posting the article I