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How to be a Victim of Social Engineering Scams

If I were a scammer, here are 9 ways I would try to scam your employees. So, if you want to be the victim of a social engineering scam, make sure they know how to fall for each one. If I wanted to scam you, I could:

Send you a legitimate looking and urgent sounding email. Ask you for sensitive data or include an infected attachment or a link to a malicious website. (phishing)
Befriend you and your coworkers when you are out for lunch or on coffee breaks. Then one day, try to follow you into your secure building. (tailgating)
Show up outside your door and pretend to have left my ID badge at home. (tailgating)
Leave a usb stick, with an infected file with an alluring name, where you might find it. (planted media)
Do research about you on your company website, social media, and from your colleagues. Pretend to be a big customer or vendor asking you to look at some invoice or document attached to an email specific to you. (whaling)
Send an email threatening hefty fines or legal action if you don’t follow the instructions in an attachment. Include ransomware in the attachment. (blackmail)
Offer to fix your computer and convince you to do something that weakens your network in the process. (quid pro quo)
Pretend to be doing research for a worthy cause and get confidential info from you in return for the latest iPhone or another “gift”. (quid pro quo)
Pretend to be from an antivirus company, or from Microsoft, calling to remove a virus from your computer. I would need you to give me remote access. Once I had it, I would install scareware and charge you money to remove
it. (Reverse Social Engineering)

If you get an email from me, open any attachments and/or click on any links. Let me follow you into your office building. If you find a usb stick, plug it in and open the files. Any one of these will be enough to become
the victim of a social engineering scam, but why not do them all, just to be sure.

See 7 Social Engineering Scams Your Employees Should Know About, by Contel Bradford, StorageCraft Discovery Zone, storagecraft.com

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How to Break the Internet? Attack A DNS

Popular on Facebook and Google+ Last month, half of America’s internet shut down due to hackers. We don’t know who did this or why, but this proves how easy it is to do. See

What Is DNS and Why Does It Make the Internet Break?, by Michael Nunez, GIZMODO, gizmodo.com

How to End Computer Attacks – Provable Code?

Popular on Facebook. Computer scientists have dreamed of computer code that could be mathematically proven correct. In the summer of 2015, a team of expert hackers tried to break into the flight computer of “Little Bird.
Little bird is an unmanned military helicopter. The hackers failed because parts of Little Bird’s computer code was as trustworthy as a mathematical proof. See

Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed, by Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, quantamagazine.org

How to Get Malware: Bad Downloads from an App Store

Popular on Twitter. One way hackers infect smartphones is to hide malware code in apps in third-party app stores. When you download and install the app, the malware gives the hackers access to your device. See

App store malware: The latest in bad downloads,
by Trend Micro, blog.trendmicro.com

How to Boost Your Business – Guest Wi-Fi

Popular on Twitter. You may be aware that big online businesses gather a lot of information about their customers. They gather data on traffic, conversions, and other analytics to drive marketing and sales. This article shows
how public Wi-Fi can allow bricks and mortar businesses to do the same thing See

Guest Wi-Fi Can Measurably Improve Customer Engagement for Brick and Mortar Businesses, by Michelle Welch, Secplicity, secplicity.org

Is the Future of the Food Industry Vertical?

Popular on Facebook. According to this article, NutraPonics Corporation Canada develops vertical farms that use nutrient rich water instead of soil. Their self-contained ecosystems that use less land, energy, and water than
traditional farms. They scale to meet any demand and grow with that demand. They produce higher yields and follow Canadian and Global standards. See

Is Vertical Farming the Future of the Food Industry?,
by Cormode Dickson, cormode.com

10 Things You Don’t Need to Know Your iPhone Can Do

Popular on Facebook and Google+. If you are an iPhone user, you know how to do a lot of cool things with your phone. Here are a few more tricks that make your favorite phone great. Check them out. See

10 Things You Didn’t Know Your iPhone Could Do, by Farhana Uddin, ROGERS, connected.rogers.com or
10 Things You Didn’t Know Your Android Could Do, by Farhana Uddin, ROGERS, connected.rogers.com

Question:	What does “quid pro quo” mean?
The Short Answer:	Something for something: Scams in this category offer you something of value (an iPhone) in return for something (confidential info about your company).