Download PDF Incident Name: Henry Ford Health Data Breach Date of Public Report: July 18th, 2023 Date of Incident: March 3rd, 2023 Summary: Henry Ford Health is a Detroit based not-for-profit healthcare provider. On July 18, 2023, the company informed customers that it... Read More
Company arms the cybersecurity community with best practices aligned to NIST CSF and MITRE ATT&CK to proactively protect the human attack surface WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S., June 15, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Most organizational breaches today continue to be the result of... Read More
VanishID is the first platform I’ve seen that can map threat intelligence to an organization’s employee population and proactively mitigate the risk of humancentric attacks.” — Chris Key, former Chief Product Officer of Mandiant and founder of Verodin WASHINGTON, D.C.,... Read More
Download PDF Incident Name: Kodi February 2023 Data Breach Date of Public Report: April 8th, 2023 Date of Incident: February 16th and 21st, 2023 Summary: Kodi is an open-source media player software provider created by the non-profit XBMC Foundation. On April 8th, 2023,... Read More
Download PDF Incident Name: Activision December 2022 Social Engineering Attack and Data Breach Date of Public Report: February 27th, 2023 Date of Incident: December 4th, 2022 Summary: Activision is a video game developer most famous for creating Call of Duty and World of... Read More
Download PDF Incident Name: Coinbase Social Engineering Attack Date of Incident: February 5th, 2023 Summary: Coinbase is an American cryptocurrency exchange platform. On February 5th, 2023, the company came under a social engineering attack in which several employees were targeted with SMS messages... Read More
Download PDF Incident Name: Reddit Feb 2023 Social Engineering Attack and Data Breach Date of Incident: February 5th, 2023 Summary: Reddit, a popular news and social media platform, announced recently that on February 5, 2023, the company suffered a data breach. The breach... Read More
Download PDF Incident Name: Riot Games Jan 2023 Date of Incident: January 20th, 2023 Summary: Riot Games is an American video game developer and publisher, most famous for the games League of Legends and Valorant. The company reported on January 20th via their... Read More
Written by Karen Walsh Phishing scams and other social engineering attacks work because cybercriminals use people’s digital footprints against them. Threat actors scrape social media and the internet, looking for insights about people. Cybersecurity awareness training programs, however, rarely teach people... Read More
Cybercriminals do what they do for money. According to the 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, 96% of data breaches were caused by external actors motivated by financial or personal gain. In order to maximize their return on investment, these cybercriminals take... Read More
What you’ll learn: What social engineering is Why social engineering matters Which organizations should be concerned Which individuals should be concerned Why current solutions fail to stop attacks How to evaluate potential solutions How Picnic works and how it’s different... Read More
Every day, people follow a set of digital routines. Some people read the news online while drinking their morning coffee. Others check their work email from their smartphone. Still others log into social media to see what’s going on with... Read More
Exploitation through easily accessible sensitive personal information is the single largest threat to companies and their people today. It’s how nearly all cyber-attacks begin and is at the root of all manner of human and organizational compromise. In this article,... Read More
Hackers today use our exposed personal data against us. More than 90% of the time, cyberattacks are specifically crafted from users’ public data. To a hacker and to cyber specialists in general, this exposed, publicly available information is known as... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 3, 2022 – VanishID, the creators of the industry’s first automated enterprise-wide social engineering prevention and detection platform, announced today that industrial cybersecurity pioneer Robert M. Lee has joined their Board of Advisors. Lee is the founder and CEO... Read More
In the very first episode, Picnic’s own Director of Global Intelligence, Manit Sahib, talks with InfoSec legend Marcello Salvati, most famously known as the creator of CrackMapExec and SilentTrinity. He is the founder and CEO of Porchetta Industries, Security Engineer at SpaceX, and is known on... Read More
By Matt Polak, CEO of VanishID Two weeks ago, at a closed meeting of cyber leaders focused on emerging threats, the group agreed that somewhere between “most” and “100%” of cyber incidents plaguing their organizations pivoted on social engineering. That’s no... Read More
Meeting all five Trust Service Principles (TSPs) along with HIPAA Security Rule Requirements, VanishID is set to deliver customer confidence in its first-of-its-kind enterprise-wide social engineering protection platform. WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 24, 2022 – VanishID, the industry’s first social engineering... Read More
By Matt Polak, CEO of VanishID Cyber threat intelligence indicates that there is a high probability of digital retaliation against Western companies and governments that have supported Ukraine or distanced from Russia. Russia has validated this intelligence and their cyberwar strategy is evident:... Read More
Using social media is, without a doubt, one of the most popular online activities that internet users engage in. Businesses have also discovered how to leverage social media to create opportunities for their brands. However, the use of these platforms... Read More
Social engineering cyber-attacks have rocketed to the forefront of cyber-security risk and have wreaked havoc on large and small companies alike. Just like a Renaissance actor drawn to Shakespeare’s genius work, the modern social engineer is attracted to the ever-growing... Read More
Everyone is familiar with the case in which the proverbial “little old lady” is duped out of her life savings by a villain contacting her through the phone or email. The “Nigerian Scam” or “Advance-fee Scam” is once such classic... Read More
Cyber fraud is lurking everywhere across the internet and one of the most effective tactics on victims is “phishing.” Phishing is a term for the use of disguised and misleading emails, text, and instant messages to trick email recipients into... Read More
Would a company send me that? We’ve all heard of a phishing email. If you haven’t heard of a phishing email, now is the time to familiarize yourself with this must-know threat lurking online. In this article, we’ll show you how... Read More
