Research suggests that the political toxicity many users encounter on social media is a design choice that can be reversed ...

Psychology is the second-most popular UK A-level subject (OFQUAL, 2025), the third-most popular UK degree subject, and is becoming increasingly taught in schools in many European countries, ...

A new tool shows it is possible to turn down the partisan rancor in an X feed—without removing political posts and without the direct cooperation of the platform.

I'm running SEToolkit in my own environment and attempting to serve a cloned site over HTTPS. Here's the situation: I have WEBATTACK_SSL=ON in set.config, as expected. I’ve tried both ...

Microsoft is warning about sophisticated social engineering attacks on human resources (HR) software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms to divert employees’ salaries to threat actor-controlled accounts.

Abstract: Social engineering techniques, exploiting humans as information systems' security weakest link, are mostly the initial attack vectors within larger intrusions and information system ...

Instead of relying on advanced tools or complex scripts, experienced attackers penetrate systems and steal data using the most effective weapon of all: social engineering. Social engineering lies at ...

Deepfakes—AI‑generated video or audio—are used by attackers to impersonate executives, family members and government officials, convincing victims to send money or share sensitive information. We all ...

Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT uncovered a high-profile social engineering attack on Thursday, with the victim losing 783 BTC worth around $91.4 million. The scam occurred on Aug. 19 and involved the ...

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 ...