Hacking Humans
CBS’ 60 Minutes interviewed victims of social engineering scams. While people in their 30s file the most reports, according to the show, senior Americans lose the most money in these scams. The show interviews a number of victims, who provide details on the specific social engineering techniques that tricked them. In two of the cases…
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This report offers a fascinating history of “419 emails” (named, according to the report, after the number used for fraud in the Nigerian penal code), an infamous advance-fee scam. There are several great tidbits about Nigerian Prince emails in the piece — we found this one interesting: “419 scammers are looking for the most gullible…
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Interesting report on AI and social engineering from Bloomberg. We enjoyed the details on the massive anti-fraud systems being developed by banks. Plus the tidbit about hacking extensions for Chrome. But also important, the mention of another frontier in social engineering: Looming battles over where to place legal liability for those scammed by social engineering:…
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