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What does Social Engineering mean? How does the social engineering piece intertwine with the technical aspect of cyber attacks?

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What does Social Engineering mean? How does the social engineering piece intertwine with the technical aspect of cyber attacks?

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What are some of the most common ways social engineering affects cybersecurity?

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What are some of the most common ways social engineering affects cybersecurity?

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Social engineering affects cybersecurity because once hackers have manipulated users to provide their personal information, they will use that information to gain access to an individual, or entire comany's, accounts or systems. These types of threats are some of the most common ways that cybersecurity is threatened, human error is exteremely hard to protect against from a technical perspective.

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What can we do to help prevent attackers from leveraging social engineering for their own benefit?

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What can we do to help prevent attackers from leveraging social engineering for their own benefit?

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According to the TEDx talk with C. Hadnagy, one of the easiest ways to prevent a phishing attack is to wait before responding to an email or text that asks for personal information (and seems to invoke an emotional response). I like this tactic because there may not always be an obvious way to identify a phishing attempt. We have seen articles in our weekly discussions related to phishing attacks that come from a verified source, to most people this would be impossible to detect.

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Social Engineering: The Uber Hack of September 2022

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Social Engineering: The Uber Hack of September 2022

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Social Engineering: The Uber Hack of September 2022

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This article features a look at steps that can be taken to mitigate the risks of a social engineering cyberattack, based on a breach at Uber that came to light earlier this year.

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How do cyber attackers leverage social engineering to go after a target?

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How do cyber attackers leverage social engineering to go after a target?

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Phishing - Cyber attackers use emails as a way to manipuate people into providing personal information. These emails will typically include something urgent or important so that it triggers an immidate emotional response. Things such as billing issues or winning a raffle will prompt a user to react quickly.

Vishing - Similar to phishing, but with voice calls. Examples of this can include hackers impersonating technical support or even impersonating kidnappers threatening familly members. These are also often things that invoke an emotional response that prompt people to react immediately.

SMSishing - Similar to phishing, but with text messaging. Hackers will often impersonate someone familiar or a business that will ask for personal information via text.

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2023 Data Breach Investigations Report: frequency and cost of social engineering attacks skyrocket

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2023 Data Breach Investigations Report: frequency and cost of social engineering attacks skyrocket

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2023 Data Breach Investigations Report: frequency and cost of social engineering attacks skyrocket

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Verizon Business today released the results of its 16th annual Data Breach Investigations Report (2023 DBIR), which analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 breaches

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2016 Presidential Campaign Hacking Fast Facts

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2016 Presidential Campaign Hacking Fast Facts

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November 2015 - The FBI reaches out to the DNC again, warning them that one of their computers is transmitting information back to Russia. DNC management later says that IT technicians failed to pass along the message that the system had been breached.

March 19, 2016 - Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta receives a phishing email masked as an alert from Google that another user had tried to access his account. It contains a link to a page where Podesta can change his password. He shares the email with a staffer from the campaign's help desk. The staffer replies with a typo - instead of typing "This is an illegitimate email," the staffer types "This is a legitimate email." Podesta follows the instructions and types a new password, allowing hackers to access his emails.

June 12, 2016 - During an interview on British television, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that the website has obtained and will publish a batch of Clinton emails.

June 15, 2016 - A cybersecurity firm hired by the DNC posts a public notice on its website describing an attack on the political committee's computer network by two groups associated with Russian intelligence. According to the post, two Russian-backed groups called "Cozy Bear" and "Fancy Bear" tunneled into the committee's computer system. In response, a blogger called Guccifer 2.0 claims that he alone conducted the hack, not the Russians. As proof, he posts internal DNC memos and opposition research on Trump. Furthermore, Guccifer 2.0 claims to have passed along thousands of files to WikiLeaks. Trump offers his own theory on the origins of the attack: suggesting in a statement that the DNC hacked itself to distract from Clinton's email scandal.

July 22, 2016 - Days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks publishes nearly 20,000 emails hacked from the DNC server. The documents include notes in which DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz insults staffers from the Bernie Sanders campaign and messages that suggest the organization was favoring Clinton rather than remaining neutral. Wasserman Schultz resigns in the aftermath of the leak.

July 27, 2016 - During a press conference, Trump talks about Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state and calls on hackers to find deleted emails."Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," says Trump. Newt Gingrich, a Trump surrogate, defends Trump in a Tweet, dismissing the comment as a "joke."

September 22, 2016 - Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Adam Schiff, ranking members of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, issue a joint statement declaring that based on information they received during congressional briefings, they believe that Russian intelligence agencies are carrying out a plan to interfere with the election. They call on Putin to order a halt to the activities.

September 26, 2016 - During a presidential debate with Clinton, Trump questions whether the DNC cyberattack was carried out by a state-sponsored group or a lone hacker. "It could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds."

October 6, 2016 - DCLeaks, a self-described collective of "hacktivists" seeking to expose the influence of special interests on elected officials, publishes a batch of documents stolen from Clinton ally Capricia Marshall. DCLeaks is later identified as a front for Russian military intelligence.

December 9, 2016 - The Washington Post reports the CIA has determined that Russian hacking was conducted to boost Trump and hurt Clinton during the presidential campaign. The Trump transition team dismisses the CIA's findings. President Obama asks intelligence agencies to review the hacking incidents in 2016 and other cyberattacks on political campaigns dating back to 2008. The agencies are asked to deliver their findings before Obama leaves office on January 20. A Russian foreign ministry spokesman expresses skepticism about the review and asks US investigators to share their evidence of government-sponsored cyber espionage. Meanwhile, media critics question the Post's reliance on anonymous sources for the CIA report and advise readers to be wary of claims in the article due to the lack of publicly available evidence to support the spy agency's conclusions.

December 12, 2016 - CNN reports that Russian hackers accessed computer accounts of Republican lawmakers and GOP organizations. A source with knowledge of the investigation says that even though hackers breached the GOP computers, they opted not to release documents en masse.

December 29, 2016 - President Obama issues an executive order with sanctions against Russia. The order names six Russian individuals who allegedly took part in the presidential campaign hacking. Additionally, 35 Russian diplomats are ordered to leave the US within 72 hours.

January 3, 2017 - Julian Assange of WikiLeaks says that the Russian government did not provide him with the hacked DNC emails during an interview with Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel.

January 3-4, 2017 - In a series of tweets, Trump questions the US intelligence community's claims that the Russian government interfered with the election. He alleges that intelligence officials have delayed a scheduled meeting with him but sources tell CNN that there has been no change to the schedule. Trump also cites Assange's interview to back his assertion that a rogue hacker, not the Russian government, may have meddled in the election.

January 6-7, 2017 - Trump issues a statement after his meeting with intelligence officials. In the statement, he acknowledges that the Russian government may have been linked to the DNC hacking but declares that cyberattacks did not impact the outcome of the election because voting machines were not breached. In a series of tweets, he repeats that hacking did not affect election results and says that he wants to improve relations with Russia.

June 1, 2017 - In public remarks, Putin says that hacking during the presidential election campaign may have been carried out by patriotic Russian citizens who felt compelled to respond to perceived slights against Russia from America. Putin says, however, that the Russian government played no role in the cyber attacks. During an interview days later, Putin says that a child could have easily hacked the American presidential campaign.

June 5, 2017 - An investigative website, the Intercept posts a report that the Russian government coordinated a spear-phishing attack on computers at an American voting machine company and compromised at least one email account. The article is based on an NSA memo that was leaked to the Intercept. Hours after the story is published, the source of the leak is identified as a government contractor named Reality Leigh Winner, 25. She is charged with transmitting classified information.

June 21, 2017 - During a Senate hearing, a Department of Homeland Security official says that hackers linked to the Russian government targeted voting systems in up to 21 states.

July 25, 2017- A bipartisan bill limiting Trump's power to ease sanctions against Russia passes in the House by a 419-3 vote. The measure also imposes new sanctions on North Korea and Iran.

July 28, 2017 - In a reversal, the White House announces that Trump intends to sign the sanctions bill into law.

July 30, 2017 - Putin announces that 755 employees at US diplomatic missions in Russia will be ousted from their posts in response to sanctions.

September 6, 2017 - In a blog post, Facebook announces that more than 3,000 advertisements posted on the social network between June 2015 and May 2017 were linked to Russia. The Washington Post reports that the ads came from a Russian company called the Internet Research Agency.

September 22, 2017 - The DHS notifies select states that hackers targeted their election infrastructure before the vote on November 8, 2016. Although vote-counting systems were not impacted, computer networks containing voter info may have been scanned by Russian hackers. Some states reported attempts to infiltrate their computer systems.

October 3, 2017 - CNN reports that a number of the Russia-linked Facebook ads were geographically targeted to reach residents of Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump defeated Clinton by a narrow margin in both battleground states.

October 12, 2017 - CNN publishes an investigation of Russian trolls who posed as a group of Black Lives Matter activists during the presidential campaign. They used a variety of platforms including Tumblr and Pokemon Go to reach voters.

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2016 Presidential Campaign Hacking Fast Facts

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November 2015 - The FBI reaches out to the DNC again, warning them that one of their computers is transmitting information back to Russia. DNC management later says that IT technicians failed to pass along the message that the system had been breached.

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How teenage hackers shut down Vegas casinos -- with a simple phone call

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How teenage hackers shut down Vegas casinos -- with a simple phone call

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How teenage hackers shut down Vegas casinos - with a simple phone call | CNN Business

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A group of teenagers are reportedly responsible for bringing down some of the biggest casinos in the world - by hacking people. CNN's Jon Sarlin talks with former FBI agent Chris Tarbell about how the caper went down.

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Social engineering attack on the North Dakota University System

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Social engineering attack on the North Dakota University System

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Social engineering attack on the North Dakota University System