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social engineering attacks and social engineering in london cybermetrix social engineering attacks and social engineering in london cybermetrix. ‘Security fatigue’ is among the topics addressed by a trainer in how to thwart social engineering attacks. One of her messages is that your physical security and your IT firewalls may be impressive (and expensive), but a social engineer can use your own staff to compromise those security measures, and to even literally or metaphorically open theRead More

Cybermetrix penetration testing solution cybersecurity london Cybermetrix penetration testing solution cybersecurity london. In most of the security standards and regulations that I’ve been following there’s typically a part titled Risk Assessment. You can find this requirement in HIPAA, PCI DSS, EU GDPR, NIST, and SANS, to reel off just a few four- or five-letter abbreviations. What is risk assessment? It’s the process by which you decide where the vulnerabilities are in your system, the likelihoodRead More

Adware that infects your computer to display pop-ups is an annoyance. But when it infects as many as one in five networks in the world, and hides the capability to do far more serious damage to its victims, it’s an epidemic waiting to happen. The security firm Check Point has warned of a massive new outbreak adware : They count 250 million PCs infected with malicious code they’ve called Fireball, designed to hijack browsers toRead More

US Defense Contractor left Sensitive Files on Amazon Server Without Password Sensitive files linked to the United States intelligence agency were reportedly left on a public Amazon server by one of the nation’s top intelligence contractor without a password, according to a new report. UpGuard cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered a cache of 60,000 documents from a US military project for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) left unsecured on Amazon cloud storage server forRead More