social engineering
The ABC's of Social Engineering & Five Ways to Protect Your Organization
White Paper Social Engineering has been an effective method of committing fraud for centuries. Without one social engineering method or another, most current attacks would not be... [13 Nov 2009]
2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering
White Paper Estimates of the number of computers infected with Storm ranged widely, with some security researchers positing that up to 50 million computers had been infected. Cisco's IronPort Systems estimates that, at its most destructive point in... [12 Nov 2009]
Malware in Email
White Paper Finally, spam which uses social engineering techniques to get users to perform specific actions is also a threat. Email is known to be one of the most popular infection vectors. Besides malicious... [12 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up The report said improvements to the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths need to be made in order to create the next generation of software developers. Coming soon: cold-calling IT managers offering... [06 Nov 2009]
Special RSA Online Fraud Report: What to Expect in 2009 and Beyond
White Paper In fact, they continue to improve their technology, launch increasingly sophisticated attacks, and use advanced social engineering techniques to dupe online users into falling for scams. Online fraud is... [06 Oct 2009]
Your Browser Wears No Clothes: Why Fully Patched Browsers Remain Vulnerable
White Paper At times, this occurs due to increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks or newly discovered (so called zero-day) vulnerabilities. As users of technology, it has been taught that the Internet... [06 Oct 2009]
Understanding Anti-Malware Research and Response at Microsoft: An Introduction to the Malware Protection Center
White Paper The use of social engineering continues to rise as an attack method, and threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their attempts to infect a system. Viruses, Trojans, and other malicious... [02 Oct 2009]
Developing Sustainable Designs for Enduring Value
White Paper SolidWorks enables engineering enterprises in developing Better Designs for a Greener Earth. Every product designed, leaves an indelible imprint on the social, economic and environmental fabric of the... [02 Oct 2009]
Google Wave opens doors to 100,000 newbies
News Google received more than one million requests to participate in the preview, said Lars Rasmussen, engineering manager for Google Wave, and while it won't be able to accommodate all those requests on Wednesday it is at... [30 Sep 2009]
Are dinosaur managers and poor teaching holding back Digital Britain?
News A recent report by the CBI blamed poor teaching in schools for contributing to a shortage of graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths. But on the other hand it's a risk averse world, it's a world that... [23 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up That 2:2 in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering doesn't seem so special now, does it? YouTube has already been banned, which is ironic given how the UK government is increasingly using it and other... [04 Sep 2009]
Can Yahoo! facelift help it ditch the 'peanut butter'?
News s engineering and marketing culture. has to walk between keeping up with advances in communication, social networking, and web technology and the risk of alienating the millions of users who like things... [25 Aug 2009]
Threat Management: Focus on Malicious URLs
White Paper Enticed to click on these malicious links by persuasive social engineering, users are unknowingly succumbing to information theft, participation in a larger botnet, and other nefarious activities. At the... [15 Aug 2009]
Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Comment For more than two decades, a succession of buzz phrases like 'paradigm shift',' process re-engineering' and 'business transformation' have littered the management lexicon. Business leaders - take note: web technologies... [11 Aug 2009]
Is Facebook's FriendFeed acquistion all about talent?
News FriendFeed's co-founders "will hold senior roles on Facebook's engineering and product teams," according to the two companies, and the rest of its 12 employees will also join Facebook. It's not clear what will happen to... [11 Aug 2009]
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