Social Media: Be Aware of What You Share
Two scammers are currently being prosecuted for deploying a romance scam against at least two victims, successfully stealing over £200,000. These criminals launched their attacks on Facebook and eventually worked up to asking their victims for money. They chose people whom they assumed would not come forward and report them. Fortunately, they were wrong.
Cybersecurity professionals talk a lot…
Social Media: How to Keep Yourself Safe
Human beings are social. We like to stay connected with friends, family and even workmates via social media. It is very rare to come across someone that does not have some sort of online presence. We share photos of what we just had for lunch, videos of beautiful vacations or even just a status update on how bored we are today. There is really no limit to what we can post.
Just because we can…
Protect Yourself from Social Media Scams
Technology and social platforms allow us to connect like never before and change how we communicate and interact as societies. We live in a world where toddlers can navigate smartphones better than their grandparents. Before, we read the morning newspaper; now, one of the first things we do when we wake up is check our social media accounts. This is our new way of staying connected to the world.…
Social Media – Don’t Get Burned By Overexposure
Malicious attackers are tireless as they search for personal and professional information; and they want it all. Indeed, information provides attackers with the knowledge they need to coordinate an approach eliciting a specific emotional response. Their goal? To achieve a compromise or breach. Where are they finding all of this personal and professional information? Let’s take a look at one…
The Beat of Social Media Engineering
Secarma recently discovered article about an API tool called “The Beat” from Rutgers University seemed to be one of the more interesting uses of social media information. The Beat links geo information embedded within Instagram images to Google Streetview. This is then made searchable using tags from Instagram. APIs and information gathering was covered in the Social Engineer Podcast 039.
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Episode 031 – Profiling People with Social Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCS8gf4FIjA
Being able to build a successful profile is an essential tool for a social engineer. There are tools out there that specialize in gathering and detailing information on targets. What about social media? Chris Sumner helps us to use social media to build effective profiles on our targets Release Date Feb 13 2012
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Ep. 054 – Social Engineering Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZSiI3XL2ys
White Canvas Group is a small collection of social media geniuses. We are talking with their front man, Chris Dufour about how social media is being and can be engineered for the good, the bad and the ugly. Feb 10, 2014
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A Human Vulnerability Scan: The Social Engineering Risk Assessment
Every year companies lose thousands and even millions of dollars due to security breaches. Because of this, corporations may spend thousands and even millions more to build up their defenses. They may upgrade company software or increase security awareness training. With all this effort though, many security executives wonder if their resources are well spent. They may also wonder if they have…