In recent years, and particularly with the rise in use of social media, cyber criminals have taken to using psychological as well as technical methods of attack. Human beings, after all, are ...

Social engineering is present in 90% of phishing attacks today. However, business email compromise (BEC) attacks stand apart in the cybercrime industry for their emphasis on social engineering and the ...

What is the purpose of social engineering? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Dr.

LinkedIn ran experiments on more than 20 million users for five years that, while intended to improve how the platform worked for members, could have affected some people’s livelihoods, according to a ...

Milam has over a decade of experience in infosec and has performed countless security assessments and penetration tests of application and enterprise environments. In this guide, Milam reveals, in ...

If a new Hulu reality-competition series is to be considered a “social experiment,” then so should a couple dozen other shows that have come and gone over the past 20 years. Few reality shows ...

Former air traffic controller Michael Pearson says an Obama-era ‘social engineering’ experiment gutted the FAA’s training pipeline, leaving America’s skies short-staffed and travelers facing years of ...