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In Pictures: 9 classic hacking, phishing and social engineering lies
Whether it is on the phone, online or in person, here are ten lies hackers, phishers and social engineers will tell you to get what they want
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Researchers reveal how easy it is to fall victim to social engineering
Receiving an email to connect to someone on LinkedIn turned out to be a social engineering experiment that Trend Micro's global field enablement vice president, Blake Sutherland, will never forget.
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More DDoS attacks will be application based: Gartner
Hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with social engineering tactics to try and infiltrate banks during 2013, warns Gartner.
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DNS reveals the top cyberthreats of 2012. And you guessed it ... no one is safe.
Our team at Nominum recently looked at the biggest threats to fixed networks at the DNS layer. Why the DNS layer? Because it is ubiquitous -- every network runs on it -- and it is the best option for protecting critical infrastructure.
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Fake bushfire appeal emails flagged: ACCC
Scammers are targeting Australian households with emails asking people to donate to phony bushfire appeals, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
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Five things you need to know about social engineering
Social engineering, the act of tricking people into giving up sensitive information, is nothing new. Convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick made a name for himself by cold-calling staffers at major U.S. companies and talking them into giving him information. But today's criminals are having a heyday using e-mail and social networks. A well-written phishing message or virus-laden spam campaign is a cheap, effective way for criminals to get the data they need.
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Botnets: 4 Reasons It's Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them
The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users.
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What’s life really like on the NBN? (Part II)
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Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 per cent more battery life in laptops
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AusCERT 2013: NBN users need security professionals’ help, says Google
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UPDATED: 4G in Australia: The state of the nation
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ASIC debacle: Conroy open to transparency over website blocks
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ASIC Optimises and Promotes Network Automation Using HP Software
Allianz Shared Infrastructure Services SE (ASIC) wanted to replace its current suite of management tools, some of which had been developed in-house, with a standard solution for the management of 600 network components in its data centre, in order to reduce costs and further improve quality. Find out what approach they took download today.
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