Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets. Of the 135 people Fortune 500 ...

Organizers of a recent Defcon social engineering contest will release their results next week. One conclusion is that women did well in protecting corporate secrets. Of the 135 Fortune 500 employees ...

A capture-the-flag-style competition slated to take place at Defcon later this month has raised eyebrows at a number of companies who are concerned they will be embarrassed or negatively impacted in ...

Only five Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers refused to give up any corporate information -- all were women Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social ...

Was your company targeted during last week's Social Engineering Capture the Flag event at the Defcon conference? If it was, would you know? The contest caused quite a stir in several industries-- in ...

Defcon 19 is right around the corner of summer, in August, which means so is the social engineering contest which tends to freak out companies and alarm the feds. Why? Because when asked, humans want ...

In recent years, and particularly with the rise in use of social media, cyber criminals have taken to using psychological as well as technical methods of attack. Human beings, after all, are ...