How to Prevent Social Engineering from Sinking You

Social engineering is the act of coercing or manipulating people into divulging confidential information or into taking actions that allow someone to steal confidential information. This is very different from using technical hacking techniques or exploiting computer or networking weaknesses to get this information. Social engineering works on our psychology. Just think of all the ads and scams that play on people’s emotions to buy something or donate money. It uses the same thinking...

Social engineering is the act of coercing or manipulating people into divulging confidential information or into taking actions that allow someone to steal confidential...

This week Health Net, a health insurance provider to about 6 million people in the US, came clean on a data breach that occurred 2 months ago. According to the company, it lost nine server drives from its California data center on January 21, 2011. Those drives contained the data of 2 million customers, employees and health care providers. Information included names, addresses, health information, Social Security numbers and possibly financial information. IBM, which...

This week Health Net, a health insurance provider to about 6 million people in the US, came clean on a data breach that occurred...

Here’s another great video about document and information security. How many times has this happened to you on an airplane or other public place? You can get security screens for your laptop to make sure no one can read what’s on the screen. It’s also a good idea to lock your laptop when you leave it. ...

Here’s another great video about document and information security. How many times has this happened to you on an airplane or other public place? ...

Information is the most important and valuable asset to your business. Without it, you are just a bunch of people who get together to talk (or email or tweet or ____). Once you develop, use and maintain a common set of knowledge, processes and expertise, you create intellectual property that is valuable. Whether that information is the specs on machine tools or the source code for your next software application, if you lost it,...

Information is the most important and valuable asset to your business. Without it, you are just a bunch of people who get together to...

How many times have you left your laptop open and walked away for just a minute? We all do it. If you’re at home or in a locked office, it’s no big deal. If your in a coffee shop or the cafeteria at work, it’s an invitation for someone to steal documents, email and data. Lock your computer before you walk away. Use Windows Key – L to lock a Windows computer. It’s a...

How many times have you left your laptop open and walked away for just a minute? We all do it. If you’re at home...

If you are a business or individual in the United States and you have someone prepare your taxes, make sure the firm is complying with The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). This legislation protects private financial information and controls the collection and disclosure of that information by CPAs, accountants and tax preparers. With over 4 million small business in the US, this means a lot of tax documents. Your tax preparer must have safeguards to protect...

If you are a business or individual in the United States and you have someone prepare your taxes, make sure the firm is complying...

You need to think about printing confidential documents and leaving them in the output tray. If you aren’t careful, anyone can come along and grab them. Especially if you print something and someone picks up their print job before you get to the printer. If the information on the document is personally identifiable information (PII), customer data or financial information, this could become serious. One of the best ways to address this is to...

You need to think about printing confidential documents and leaving them in the output tray. If you aren’t careful, anyone can come along and...

In January The Schmoo Group held its annual get together called ShmooCon 2011. This is an annual east coast hacker convention in the US where people discuss critical information security issues and demonstrate technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions. This year Deral Heiland and Pete Arzamendi presented a discussion on serious vulnerabilities in multifunction printer (MFP) security. In this presentation they focused on gathering data from MFPs and using it to access other...

In January The Schmoo Group held its annual get together called ShmooCon 2011. This is an annual east coast hacker convention in the US...

We all know that the weakest link in the chain always compromises our information security. This is a great futuristic looking video showing how people are the weak link and we need education to improve. I want the computer system they show in this video....

We all know that the weakest link in the chain always compromises our information security. This is a great futuristic looking video showing how...

This week is the RSA Conference in San Francisco and it focuses on information security and all that entails. While this is a very broad topic that covers everything from anti-virus software to how to prevent the next cyber attack, the common goal is the same. Each of us has something that others want to steal or exploit and we need to figure out a way to prevent them from doing that. While governments...

This week is the RSA Conference in San Francisco and it focuses on information security and all that entails. While this is a very...

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How to Prevent Social Engineering from Sinking You

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