Security News > 2018 > April > How the human factor puts your company at risk

Positive Technologies has released a new report with statistics on the success rates of social engineering attacks, based on the 10 largest and most illustrative pentesting projects performed for clients in 2016 and 2017. To verify the security of corporate systems, testers imitated the actions of hackers by sending emails to employees with links to websites, password entry forms, and attachments. In total, 3,332 messages were sent. If the “attacks” had been real, 17 percent … More → The post How the human factor puts your company at risk appeared first on Help Net Security.

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