Despite being released in the third week of last month, Sober was by far the most successful piece of malware and accounted for more than 40 percent of all viruses in November, according to Sophos.

Specific examples of Scattered Spider’s social engineering tactics include “impersonating employees or contractors to deceive ...

Social engineering is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to buildings, systems, or data. Train yourself to spot the signs.

Social engineering techniques are frequently part of an overall security penetration test; often used as a way to test an organization’s so-called “human network.”. But in a pen tester’s ...

Professional ethical social engineering testers can sometimes cross ethical and legal boundaries, which can have significant consequences, warned Sharon Conheady, director at First Defence Information ...