Why?

WPI Information Security educates our community about topics to improve security in their WPI work as well as their personal endeavors.   

Action Needed

View the September 2024 edition of SECURE IT online (Actions).

Details

This month focuses on SOCIAL ENGINEERING, which is the use of customized deception methods to obtain personal or confidential information for illicit purposes.

In this issue: 

  • Psychology of Social Engineering
  • Attack Strategies, Including AI
  • Prevention
  • Learning with Laughter
  • From WPI's CISTO
  • Secrets of Social Engineering Webinar
  • Meet Jeff!
  • Featured Videos
  • Statistics and In the News
  • Diversity in Cybersecurity
  • WPI Resources
A dog is laying down with a curtain covering half of it. The curtain is labeled "Spoofed Website" and the dog is labeled, "Attacker waiting for your login credentials."