Bank that lacked basic security suffers predictable fate • The Register Where have these people been living – under a stone! Andra Pradesh Mahesh Co-Operative Urban Bank – 45 branches, holding money that people entrusted to them.
The Works suffer a cyber attack – training is the key defence
The Works forced to shut some shops after cyber-attack – BBC News So far The Works is saying that no customer data has been compromised. There are some notable quotes in this article: “The Works should serve as an example to other companies.” “…staff should carry out training to highlight …
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WordPress as a threat to a secure internet – this is why you need to attend our training course – social engineering attacks are everywhere
It is a long title but it explains exactly what this post is about. The instructions for setting up simple but profitable social engineering and phishing email campaigns are easily available across the ordinary internet, not just the dark web. The software required is free, both the malicious stuff and …
Even the world’s biggest companies get suckered by social engineering
Both Apple and Meta were the victims of social engineering scams that caused them to simply giveaway user personal information. I am not going to call this sophisticated – actually it was quite simple – the cyber criminals, studied how an Emergency Data Requests (EDR) operated and then spoofed that …
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Teenagers broke through the cybersecurity of some of the world’s biggest companies
UK teenagers charged over Lapsus$ gang membership. Lapsus$: Two UK teenagers charged with hacking for gang – BBC News This extortion gang has been responsible for some of the most high profile cyber security breaches in recent months: Lapsus$ ransomware gang at Smart Thinking Solutions
