"Social Media Oversharing Exposes 80% of Office Workers"

Researchers at Tessian polled 4000 UK and US professionals and interviewed 10 hackers specializing in social engineering to compile its latest research: How to Hack a Human.  The researchers concluded that over 80 percent of British and American employees overshare on social media, potentially exposing themselves and their organization to online fraud, phishing, and other cyber-threats.  Half the survey respondents share names and photos of their children,  72% mention birthdays, and 81% mention their job status on social media. The researchers stated that this information might seem harmless, but hackers will stitch them together to create a complete picture of their targets and make scams as believable as possible.  More than half of the participants admitted they have public profiles on Facebook, and only a third of the participants had a private Instagram account.  Most of the participants post on social media every week, and 42% post every day.  The researchers also found that social engineering attacks and wire fraud attacks increased by 15% during the last six months of 2020, versus the previous six. Some 88% of respondents said they had received a suspicious email in 2020.  The researchers believe that organizations need to help their employees to understand how their information can be used against them in phishing attacks if we’re going to stop hackers from hacking humans.

Infosecurity reports: "Social Media Oversharing Exposes 80% of Office Workers"