By Silvia Arezzini, systems engineer and project manager at INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics) “The problem of social engineering has always interested me because it shows the intertwining of technical and human aspects. Social...
Security
By Bruno Vuillemin, Security Officer of the University of Fribourg Sometimes a very simple fraud can cause a great deal of trouble. Whenever you receive and read an email, the sender might not necessarily be the person sending the message! In fact, most...
Social engineering is the act of manipulating or tricking people into certain actions, such as giving out personal or financial information that can be used to commit fraud. It’s an act, but also an art; social engineers are very good at influencing...
The Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) is the largest research centre in Switzerland. Cyber security challenges have increased enormously in recent years. In order to protect the continuity of its large research facilities and infrastructure, the organisation...
By Francois Mouton, Associate Professor in Cyber Security at Noroff University College The world as we know it will never be the same. The start of the year 2020 brought along discussions about the corona virus family of viruses and how they are...