Dave Kennedy, creator of social-engineer.org's social engineering toolkit, gives an overview of how the program was created, and how it is always changing to keep pace with crime Social engineering ...

If you fall for a social engineer’s trickery, it’s embarrassing. As long as it’s happening to someone else, though, it can make for great cinema. Security experts John Sileo and Chris Hadnagy gave us ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Federal Bureau of Investigations on Friday issued an alert concerning Scattered Spider, a cybercriminal organization currently targeting the airline industry. The group, which is also ...

Social engineering and AI-driven fraud are climbing to the top of global security concerns. The World Economic Forum lists them among the biggest cybersecurity threats of 2025. And the threat is no ...

We all know the basics—strong passwords, two-factor authentication, and so on. However, the most recent security and privacy breaches have had less to do with bad passwords and more to do with social ...

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 ...

Organizations invest heavily in technology, yet today’s most costly breaches are increasingly slipping through traditional defenses. The reason? Attackers target human psychology, now supercharged by ...

Bill Kellogg’s guest opinion published last month perpetuates a common misconception: Data-based decision-making good, social engineering bad. Unfortunately this model doesn’t address the real issue: ...