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Socially Engineered Into Stealing $500,000 From a Casino

A cashier at a Colorado casino is accused of stealing half a million dollars in cash after allegedly being duped by phone calls and text messages from imposters posing as her bosses ...
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A Device to Turn Traffic Lights Green

Here’s a story about a hacker who reprogrammed a device called “Flipper Zero” to mimic Opticom transmitters—to turn traffic lights in his path green. As mentioned earlier, the Flipper Zero has a ...

Defending against AI Lobbyists

When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the regulation of its own ...
Social Engineering and Healthcare

Social Engineering and Healthcare

Social engineering has become a larger threat to the healthcare industry in recent years. So much so that the Federal […] ...

Obligatory ChatGPT Post

Seems like absolutely everyone everywhere is playing with Chat GPT. So I did, too…. Write an essay in the style of Bruce Schneier on how ChatGPT will affect cybersecurity. As with any ...
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Impersonation, Fraud and the Future of Deepfakes

All kinds of documents, communications, emails, text messages and other kinds of messages require authentication to be binding on the parties and to be admissible in court as evidence of the binding ...
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Stronger Security Posture: Where to Start

We talk about information security and its importance all the time. The multitude of attacks in 2022 alone demonstrates its […] ...
Authentically Inauthentic

Authentically Inauthentic

Part of the job of a social engineer is creating a good pretext or a good story, that you tell […] ...