Social Engineering can be summed up as ‘hacking the human’. Traditional malicious hacking attacks a digital instance of an organisation (i.e. website, network or system) and attempts to gain unauthorised access or cause harm by exploiting a vulnerability. Social engineering instead focuses on a person and attempts to exploit human frailties by coercing or tricking […]
Employee error still reigns as the number one threat for data breaches even with modern day security solutions. The numbers don’t lie, with anywhere from 70 – 80% of all breaches being attributed to staff. Yet many organisations do not have a mature information & cyber security awareness programme in place. As we mentioned in […]
SPEAR PHISHING, WHALING, BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE AND CEO FRAUD IS ON THE RISE AND COSTING COMPANIES BILLIONS Have you heard of the acronym: FUD? It stands for ‘Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt.’ Unfortunately, the Information Security industry has a bit of a bad rep for selling their services off the back of FUD: “Don’t want the […]