Security Awareness – FBI Issues PSA on Social Engineering Techniques

As social engineering techniques continue to proliferate, it is still important to continually remind family, friends, and colleagues of the common themes that are designed to trick us into falling for cyber scams. As such, the FBI recently issued a public service announcement to inform individuals and businesses about current social engineering techniques, including:

1. impersonating employees,
2. subscriber identity module (SIM) swap attacks,
3. call forwarding and simultaneous ring; and,
4. phishing.

The PSA includes guidance for individuals and organizations. Members are encouraged to use the PSA and respective guidance for regular security awareness training and reminders. Check out the PSA at IC3.gov.