There’s definitely a large chunk of everyday emails and social media posts that many users immediately recognize as unworthy of their time. Phishing typically succeeds because its targets cannot distinguish fraudulent missives from legitimate communication. A successful attack not only embarrasses the victim and puts customers at risk, but it also provides fuel for future attempts. The long term effect of the eBay breach: Even more social engineering If true, the success of such tactics would seem to indicate that eBay’s security apparatus lacked adequate access controls and two-factor authentication mechanisms, which between them could have stopped cybercriminals from getting through the gates with just a username and a password. How did the attackers acquire eBay employee credentials? Speaking to Help Net Security, Brian Honan, CEO at BH Consulting, hypothesized that they used spear-phishing to mislead eBay employees. In a statement about the breach, eBay mentioned that “a small number of employee login credentials were compromised.” As many as 100 such accounts may have been hijacked, although to eBay’s credit its security teams discovered anomalous network activity within roughly 90 days, far below the average of 224 days discovered in a 2014 Mandiant report. In the case of eBay, social engineering did the work more commonly associated with sophisticated network exploits and advanced malware. Hackers working on behalf of countries such as Iran have conducted years-long campaigns against U.S.
Social engineering, another term for deception, is on the rise as cybercriminals focus on profits in addition to prestige.Without knowing if any cryptographic weaknesses were in play, the more pressing aspect of the attack becomes the apparent use of social engineering, which has become a fixture of cybercriminal strategy: Social engineering takes center stage with eBay breach Either way, eBay subsidiary PayPal’s assets, which include extensive data on payment cards and bank accounts, were spared since they were housed on a separate network. Given the incident’s timing, it’s possible that the Heartbleed vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library – open but undiscovered at the time – could have been exploited to evade eBay’s defenses. The compromised databases may have included many of these individuals’ email and physical addresses, encrypted passwords, dates of birth and phone numbers. eBay was hit by a cyberattack sometime in early 2014, with the perpetrators making off with sensitive information on some of the service’s 128 million registered users. The game got a digital re-release on the Steam digital platform on July 23, 2019, and that it supports multiplayer over LAN on the service.If Target was the most prominent breach victim of 2013 – suffering a network security lapse that compromised data for millions of shoppers – then there’s already a frontrunner for the same dubious distinction in 2014. In adventure mode the player controls a group of heroes and a small squad of troops uncovering dark secrets and surprising twists as the adventure unfolds. Combined with the player's main race they provide a valuable asset when clashing with their opponents. In strategy mode, the player is able to select 3 major races – Humans, Foresters and Darklings, and in addition to these three primary races, the player is able to capture, enslave and develop five independent nations – Shades, Nomads, Dragons, Trolls, and Elves. Rising Kingdoms is a realtime strategy game set in a fantasy world, which focuses on empire development and dynamic tactical battles and features both strategy and adventure modes in the fantasy world of Equiada.
Rising Kingdoms is a real-time strategy PC game developed by Haemimont Games and published by Black Bean Games.