Social Engineering

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When A $6.90 Bribe Cost Coinbase $400 Million

15 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Myxoplixx

Coinbase recently found itself at the center of a sophisticated data breach that was as audacious as it was alarming. In March, the company discovered that cybercriminals had bribed overseas support contractors, earning them as little as $6.90 an hou...

Simplifying Cyber Safety for Everyone with Sandra Estok

9 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

  Cybersecurity is not just a technical endeavor. Attackers often pursue people to either gain access to valuable systems or to directly victimize them. This includes companies, adults, and even children. In this episode of the Cybersecurity Vault I...

What is Cyber Security and Why Social Engineering???

8 May 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Lawyer-Niraj

In the intricate world of cybersecurity, social engineering stands out as a significant threat that manipulates human psychology to breach digital defenses. This deceptive tactic leverages the art of persuasion, exploiting personal interactions and d...

A Hat in Time

25 Apr 2024 5 minute read 4 comments Jinno

     I recently install Windows 7 on current hardware, man do they not make it easy with having to install usb 3.0 drivers just to navigate within the Operating System. So the work around that worked for me was using a Ps2 keyboard to install Windows...

Social Engineering Attacks - Recognition and Counteraction

20 Dec 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Zhukov

Social engineering  attacks designed to circumvent technical vulnerabilities in cybersecurity through human psychology. Those being victimized have to see through and reject such manipulative tricks.Social engineering is the technical term for using...

A Coalition of Mutual Disdain

17 Dec 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Beware the fury of a patient man."John Dryden   People are a crossbow pointed at the heads of every leader in history.  The longer and harder people are pushed and pulled around, the more violent and sudden their reaction will be when the tension is...

What Are Social Engineering Scams?

12 Aug 2023 5 minute read 2 comments MintDice.com

In the modern day, social engineering is often used to describe the concept of a government controlling social developments using a variety of methods. While social engineering is definitely a thing, this article is about the scams which use the same...

Masks Are the Mark of a Slave

4 Dec 2020 1 minute read 1 comment atrusso

My name is Alan Russo. At seventy-one years of age, I've seen a lot of what's happening in this world and have a strong desire to be a part of a change to make it better. I love my Creator and know that He loves us all and wants the best for us. I ca...

The Plans of the Elite

28 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment atrusso

Has life has changed a lot for you from six months ago? The powers that be say that there is a worldwide pandemic that threatens us all. The science and the number of people dying does not back this up. They have used fear to persuade or force us to...

Social engineering attacks via social media: How to spot them and how to protect yourself

22 Jul 2020 6 minute read 5 comments X-51

Anybody who has been on Facebook for more than a month (possibly other social media too, but this is where I see them) has probably seen one of these things going around - a quiz asking you to list out some random details about your favourite colour,...