Ssn 1 Ep 19: The Easiest Way to Get Hacked
Ssn 1 Ep 19
The Easiest Way to Get Hacked
How social engineering puts you at risk for one of the easiest ways to breach your network.
SHOW NOTES
:15: An example of how a hacker uses social engineering to trick the help desk into helping them breach a corporate network.
1:20: One of the easiest ways to gain access to a corporate executive’s email password.
2:30: The social dynamics that make people more susceptible to falling prey to this kind of trick.
3:03: What a hacker does after they gain access to the executive’s email password.
4:15: How multifactor authentication can protect you.
6:20: How an executive might get targeted to begin with.
7:15: What kind of protocols need to be established for the help desk to authenticate personnel when they call in.
8:23: Other ways of getting hacked, most common phishing attacks.
8:40: Installing malware through phishing attacks and what happens afterwards.
10:05: Other type of common phishing email, bogus alert for a problem with your account at a financial institution.
12:05: How creating a sense of urgency in a phishing email can make you more prone to click their link.
12:27: Phony pages that are created to look exactly like your PayPal or bank page.
12:50: Substituting characters or misspellings in a legitimate URL to make a bogus page look legit.
13:35: When a hacker targets a company, they’re typically after your Office365 or G Suite credentials, and what they do with those credentials afterwards.
14:30: Chase Cunningham and ethical hackings, and how social engineering increases his chances of hacking into a company to 100%.
15:47: Why human nature makes us prone to falling victim to cyber breaches.
16:30: How one hacker’s attempts were foiled by sitting at the wrong desk and how a nosy co-worker saved her company from a breach.
17:49: A situation that happened at a Black Hat conference in Las Vegas and how a reporter locked an inquirer out of their phone account as a demonstration.
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Cybersecurity Stats:
- https://www.comparitech.com/vpn/cybersecurity-cyber-crime-statistics-facts-trends/
- https://cybersecurityventures.com/cybersecurity-almanac-2019/
- https://www.varonis.com/blog/cybersecurity-statistics/
- https://techjury.net/blog/cyber-security-statistics/
Your hosts: Rex Nance and Penny O'Halloran of East Atlantic Security, LLC @ https://EastAtlanticSecurity.com/
Voiceover Artist: Paul Kadach at www.voices.com
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