by Sophie Wingrove | Jun 18, 2021 | Phishing Simulation & Social Engineering
If you look back over the last thirty years and think about the one single technology that has changed our lives more than any other…it’s likely you’ll land on email. Perhaps even more than the mobile phone, the ability to send and receive messages in an instant...
by Inga Nikolajeva | Jan 29, 2020 | Article, Managing Risk, Penetration Testing, Phishing Simulation & Social Engineering, Threat & Vulnerability Management, Virtual CISO
Research is drawn from 2|SEC Consulting’s Virtual CISO, Cyber Security Audit, Cyber Essentials and Penetration Test team engagements over 2019. The Top 5 Cyber Threats found: Passwords You think your password is secure? Think again. Billions of user accounts and...
by Sally Urwin | Aug 8, 2017 | Article, Incident Response, Penetration Testing, Phishing Simulation & Social Engineering, Protect, Security Operations Centre, Threat & Vulnerability Management
Alexander Drabek is part of our team of expert penetration testers; who “ethically hack” into client’s networks and find any potential weaknesses. We asked him exactly what it is he does, and how he does it. What skills do you need to become a penetration tester? Many...
by Tim Holman | May 8, 2017 | Article, Detect, Incident Response, Information Security & ISO 27001, Phishing Simulation & Social Engineering, Protect, Respond, Threat & Vulnerability Management
Google users appear to have been the latest victims of the most recent phishing attack, this time through their file sharing Google Docs service. Victims were sent a sinister email disguised as a fraudulent invitation to edit a Google Doc that appears to come from one...
by Tim Holman | May 2, 2017 | Article, Information Security & ISO 27001, Phishing Simulation & Social Engineering
Last month, the papers reported that two major US technology firms were deceived by Evaldas Rimasauskas, a Lithuanian criminal, into sending him $100 million through an email whaling scam. It has just been confirmed that Google and Facebook were the two companies that...
by admin | Oct 12, 2010 | Phishing Simulation & Social Engineering
What is Social Engineering? Businesses are experiencing an increase in the number of sophisticated and sustained threats carried out by organised criminals in the UK. This also includes the possibility of opportunistic attackers and potentially disgruntled...
