How would you hack me? Learn to social engineer yourself before the attackers do

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Date and Time

August 19, 2026
12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT

Event Description: Put yourself in the bad guy’s shoes. Cyber news reporter Kerry Tomlinson shows you a series of seemingly harmless social media posts and how attackers would most likely use them try to infiltrate people's accounts and steal money. Then she’ll show you how to review your own social media to see how you're most vulnerable and what you can do to combat malicious hacking, social engineering, and attackers using AI.

Speaker Bio: Kerry Tomlinson is an award-winning cyber news reporter who works to help people stay smarter and safer online. She spent three decades as a TV news reporter, often going undercover to investigate crimes, winning multiple Emmys and other local, regional and national journalism awards. Now she travels the world looking for creative and compelling ways to show people what is happening in the digital world and how it impacts them. She has reported from Russia, the Philippines, Spain, France, Denmark, Turkey, Argentina, Colombia and more. She has launched a number of new news programs, organizations and investigative units during her career, including a cyber news site called Ampyx News (pronounced AM-pix). She is a certified security awareness professional, a popular speaker, and has received a SANS Difference Maker award for her work in informing people about cybersecurity.