Keen to the importance of not simply clicking on any email I receive in my inbox, I recently received a message with a subject line I could not resist: “Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training.” For ...

AI social engineering is just getting started. Employers must make employees aware of these risks and train them to exercise their security intuition. Here’s how. Generative AI technology such as ...

Social engineering attacks are one of the most dangerous forms of cyberattacks due to their ability to compromise the human element first. Threat actors often use social engineering tactics to gain a ...

Social engineering takes advantage of the emotions and fallibility of end users rather than relying on technical hacking techniques — and it represents a massive threat to modern organizations.

Over the last decade, social engineering cyberthreats have surged among retailers just as the sector's reliance on customer data, financial transactions and e-commerce platforms has intensified. See ...

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 ...

In the two preceding columns, John Orlando discussed the ethical dimensions of social engineering in penetration testing. Today I want to look at how to use social engineering effectively for ...

Social Engineering Attacks Surge in 2025, Becoming Top Cybersecurity Threat Your email has been sent A new report from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 highlights how attackers are shifting away from ...

When discussing cybersecurity, a common refrain emerges: ‘People are the weakest link.’ From phishing scams to social engineering attacks, much of the conversation centers on human susceptibility to ...

Social engineering raises some serious questions about data protection and compliance of accounting firms. Therefore, accounting firms should have measures to protect their IT assets against this ...

Business email compromise (BEC) continues to evolve on the back of sophisticated targeting and social engineering, costing business worldwide more than $50 billion in the last 10 years — a figure that ...

Led by Bessemer Venture Partners, the round reflects 3x increase in valuation in six months and adds new investors, including CrowdStrike's George Kurtz SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...