Social engineering attacks are a real threat to most organizations

Social engineering, as a method of cyber-security attacks, is very popular and quite widespread, according to a new report by cybersecurity firm Agari. It had polled 200 professionals from healthcare, government, financial services and education sectors. Six in ten (60 percent) of security leaders say their organization either was, or "may have been" a victim of at least one targeted social engineering attack, on the last year alone. Two thirds of those attacks (65 percent) led to employees’ credentials getting compromised. Financial accounts were breached in 17 percent of attacks. Almost nine in ten (89 percent) of respondents say they noticed either… [Continue Reading]