Phishing

A Social engineering attack is a technique used by the hacker to trick people so they give up confidential information. The most important information the criminals are seeking are peoples’ passwords, bank information, social security number and much more. Reading through the website http://www.social-engineer.org/, I can tell that no one is safe from social engineering attack. One example that makes me think that way is the case of Maario Coleman and Angela Russell. These two guys were able to collect

ICO scams are a threat to the burgeoning blockchain technology and everyone that invests in it. That much we can agree upon, right? It's a tragedy they still exist, and it looks like they're not going away anytime soon. So, how do you spot these scams? Just for a moment, let's put ourselves in the mind of a criminal and create our very own malicious scam. Maybe after that, we will know how to better avoid them. CREATING AN ICO SCAM: IT'S ALL IN THE NAME Alright, the first step in creating your

Social media and social networking are causing depressions, anxiety, obesity, cyberbullying and the rise of harassment online. Yet most teens are extremely dependent on their devices spending hours doing nothing but mindlessly scrolling. These sites do nothing but destroy the self confidence of the users often leading to addiction. Platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and more have just become an addiction we all just accept even if it is detrimental to most people’s health. Social Media is detrimental

Spoofing Spoofing deceives the system so that it recognizes an intruder as an authorized user by falsifying data ( Evans et al. 2016). The victim will not be aware of the hoax because his connection will not be affected. Spoof attacks include; emails spoofs, caller ID spoofs. They are used to steal someone's identity, and the people vulnerable are customers who do all activities online like accessing bank accounts and using credit cards to buy things online. Social engineering This involves manipulating

Summary Notes "Jim reported that he was being prompted for an email password on his MacBook, and none of his passwords worked. Logged into the Office 365 portal and reset his password. Verified that Jim connected to the Exchange server and was receiving email. " Dana reported that she had received some messages from the domain "pnlending" a day after they were sent. Had her email me the headers from one of the messages which I then forwarded to Dave Kleinatland for analysis. Dave found that the

RES 698/699 Class Participation: In-Progress Annotated Bibliography II Prabhakar Neupane (660251942) Article 1: Yu, S. (2015). Covert communication by means of email spam: A challenge for digital investigation. Digital Investigation, 13, 72-79. Article Topic: The article discusses the importance of analyzing spam emails, and says it cannot be emphasized enough. Most people tend to get confused between the junk and spam emails. This article focuses on digital investigations of malicious messages

Virtual Relationship Fraud 2.0 Introduction Deception is one of the most highly discussed terms within the modern day society; the awareness between deception and communication technology has raised many questions regarding deception and technology, also known as ‘digital deception’. Research Questions The questions this paper will research are societal issues concerned with deception and self-presentation. 1) How can the Internet facilitate deception through the manipulation of identity; 2)

(AFP/File/Karen Bleier, Yahoo is attempting to bind when it first knew programmers had ruptured its frameworks and whether they cleared out approaches to recapture access to accounts later on) Hurray gave more points of interest on Wednesday around an epic hack of its administrations, including that the guilty parties may have planted programming "treats" for continuous access to clients' records. In disclosures that could imperil the organization's pending $4.8 billion securing by US telecom

1.Basic Idea of what Phishing Link means: Phishing web page can be defined as “any web page that, without permission, alleges to act on behalf of a third party with the intention of confusing viewers into performing an action with which the viewers would only trust a true agent of a the third party.” 2.Types of Features selected for identifying Phishing links: A.Long URL to Hide the Suspicious Part: Phishers can use long URL to hide the doubtful part in the address bar.The more the length of the

Phishing Protection Suggestion I – Phishing campaign result Summary According to the analysis above, we have a complete understanding for the current phishing protection situation and probable protection issues. Based on two phishing tests results and related statistics analysis. We can make a conclusion that, most staffs in the IT department of University XYZ have enough security awareness for protecting phishing attacks. Most of them will not believe, reply or open the attachment of phishing emails