social engineering
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13 Persistent Online Scams (and How to Avoid Them)
Everyone being online all the time, especially over the past few pandemic years, has been very good for criminals. According to the Federal Trade Commission, consumers lost more than $US5.8 ($8) billion to scammers in 2021 through such a wide variety of ruses and boondoggles, it would take a library to describe them all.
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Keep Your Account Safe From the Latest YouTube Phishing Scam
A recent report from Google’s Threat Analysis group highlights a phishing campaign targeting YouTube content creators. Hackers successfully hijacked thousands of channels, which were either sold off or used to launch financial scams against the channel’s viewers.
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5 Pandemic-Era Travel Scams and How to Avoid Them
Some 53% of Americans are planning at least one trip this year, and scammers will be following them every step of the way. Whether you’re booking flights or rental cars online; at the airport; or even in your hotel room, scams are everywhere. And we’re not just talking about garden-variety phishing texts, either — as…
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How To Use Social Engineering, But Not In An Evil Way
If you want to win friends and influence people, well, there’s a whole book on how to do that. But how do you do social engineering the right way — to make life better for everyone, not just to manipulate people into doing what you want?