Workday has confirmed that it fell victim to a wide-ranging social engineering campaign that allowed hackers to access information at one of its third-party vendors. The hackers work by impersonating ...

Siladitya Ray is a New Delhi-based Forbes news team reporter. Rockstar Games—the developers of the popular Grand Theft Auto series of video games—was hacked just days after ride-hailing giant Uber’s ...

Keen to the importance of not simply clicking on any email I receive in my inbox, I recently received a message with a subject line I could not resist: “Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training.” For ...

The recent hack of 1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets was carried out by compromising a CoinStats employee. On June 22, the cryptocurrency portfolio manager CoinStats temporarily suspended its services ...

The University of Pennsylvania has confirmed that a hacker breached numerous internal systems related to the university's ...

Hannah Shaw, better known as the “Kitten Lady,” teaches people how to care for neonatal cats, and has raised more than $1 million for animal shelters and rescues. Her Facebook page has gained over a ...

SYDNEY — Properly trained staff, not technology, is the best protection against social engineering attacks on sensitive information, according to security consultant and celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick ...

The final day of the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York celbrated the hacker spirit — an upbeat finish for an audience still in shock from Saturday’s surprise FBI arrest of invited ...

Here at Hackaday we cover news and interesting features for the hacker community, with an emphasis more on the hardware side. Nevertheless we also cover stories from time to time from the broader ...

Social events are enjoyable. It is always nice to meet new and current professionals. Talking in person can help your business. But one kind of social contact — social engineering — can be deadly for ...