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On the stability of travelling waves with vorticity obtained by minimization
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We modify the approach of Burton and Toland Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (2011) to show the existence of periodic surface water waves with vorticity in order that it becomes suited to a stability analysis. This is achieved by enlarging the function space to a class of stream functions that do not correspond necessarily to travelling profiles. In particular, for smooth profiles and smooth stream functions, the normal component of the velocity field at the free boundary is not required a priori to vanish in some Galilean coordinate system. Travelling periodic waves are obtained by a direct minimisation of a functional that corresponds to the total energy and that is therefore preserved by the time-dependent evolutionary problem (this minimisation appears in Burton and Toland after a first maximisation). In addition, we not only use the circulation along the upper boundary as a constraint, but also the total horizontal impulse (the velocity becoming a Lagrange multiplier). This allows us to preclude parallel flows by choosing appropriately the values of these two constraints and the sign of the vorticity. By stability, we mean conditional energetic stability of the set of minimizers as a whole, the perturbations being spatially periodic of given period.
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Glenwood Community School District voters approved the school district's revenue purpose statement by a nearly 4-to-1 margin in a special election last Tuesday.
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You can scream it from the mountain top, 'No new taxes.'"
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Mary Ann Smith Sanford, age 55 of Smithfield, died Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. She lived in the Henry County community her entire life and worked for Henry County School system as a bus monitor for 21 years. She also worked the door at Six-Mile Jamboree where she spent time with her many friends. Mary Ann was very active in the community where she was loved by many. She is remembered by her family and friends for her loving and nurturing nature and her willingness to put the needs of others before her own. She was the daughter of the late Gladys (Bramblett) Smith and Fred Smith.
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Perhaps the strongest element of Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion is its presentation. Fantastic character sprites fully evoke their Disney heritage, while the backgrounds play on the castle 'Illusion' name, with each level transporting Mickey to completely different worlds.
Each character's area in The Fortress is similarly well themed, and upgrading them by completing side-quests, has them evolve into more lavish worlds. Seeing The Beast's castle grow from stone chamber to a beautiful plush palace is incredibly satisfying, especially as his supporting cast from 'Beauty and the Beast' are rescued from the Castle of Illusion to join him.
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After decades of strict secularism, the reemergence of political Islam in Turkish politics has caused many to believe that Turkey's gaze has shifting eastward. Yet, unlike other Islamist movements that centered solely on the Koran, Gareth Jenkins attributed the rise of political Islam in Turkey to the return of the unique identity, values and traditions of rural Turkey which have penetrated the political mainstream.
Since the early Ottoman Empire, people living in the countryside held a combination of beliefs, which included elements of Orthodox Islam mixed with Christian and pre-Christian faiths. Most historians agree that after the conquest of Istanbul, Islamic scholars began to dominate the political class in urban centers and the Ottoman Empire began to resemble an Orthodox Islamic state. Jenkins challenged the commonly held belief that Orthodox Islam was practiced uniformly throughout the empire. Rather, most of the population was rural and illiterate, and followed a more syncretic form of Islam.
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Although Islamic parties have been politically active since 1969 in Turkey, the most successful Islamic party to date has been the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Rooted in the Islamic movement, AKP centered ideology on traditional "folk" Islam, emphasizing the values, traditions and identity that originate in Turkey's rural regions. By highlighting piety and democracy, AKP gained significant electoral strength and garnered 46 percent of the vote in the 2007 elections.
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Social engineering has been, and continues to be, the prevailing cause of many high profile corporate breaches. As the premiere social engineering experts and armed with in-depth experience from the social engineering frontline, we've crafted our offerings to provide even more comprehensive and specialized training for 2016.
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One of the questions we are asked most often is, "What's the next step for graduates of APSE?"As the threat posed by social engineering has grown, so has our curriculum. We are very excited to announce the release of our Master's Level Social Engineering class – a breakthrough course designed to teach advanced social engineering penetration testing techniques through a totally immersive experience – an actual SE engagement on live targets!
Students will be required to apply the knowledge they acquired in APSE to perform deep OSINT and attack planning. Then the instructors will guide them through all stages of an SE engagement.. The class will move on to phishing, vishing, and even onsite impersonation with specific goals to accomplish in a very limited amount of time. Throughout the week, Chris and Michele will be sharing their techniques, experience, and the most current research to assist the students in honing and mastering their SE pentesting skills.
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Q: Will the phishing program be the only job your in-house person has to manage?
Consideration: Running a phishing program is a full-time job. If you're planning to run a phishing program in house, you should consider designating a full-time program manager. We've seen many organizations initiate phishing programs without allocating proper resources. These programs are not as effective. They often stall or end up starting over again with the proper allocation of resources to receive maximum benefits. Consider this before starting your phishing program to save time, resources and the frustration of an unsuccessful program.
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Consideration: Often phishers in the wild will use highly sophisticated, psychology based attack mechanisms that entice users to click. Does your team have time to conduct due-diligence to write a highly targeted spear phish for educational purposes? We like to use a little analogy to explain this: train the way you'll fight, because you'll fight the way you've been trained. If you aspire to be a professional boxer, would you want to be trained by an experienced boxing coach, or your next-door neighbor who volunteered to help? Leveraging an individual or team with experience in crafting and rating phishing emails will ensure your employees learn and gradually level up in phishing training initiatives.
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What is vishing?
Vishing, also known as voice elicitation or voice phishing, is an attack method in which an organization's employees are contacted via the telephone. The caller attempts to extract information necessary to compromise an organization. Vishing attackers will often use spoofing technology, exploiting trust in caller ID systems to establish credibility. Vishing attacks are low budget for the attacker and difficult to track by responders. Attackers rarely limit their targets to a single organization, industry or employee.
Why should my security team care about vishing?
Attackers will always look for an easy way in. Ideally they will be able to get insiders to help by engaging with them and building trust relationships. The telephone is a great avenue to do this, and therefore vishing is becoming more commonly used as an attack vector. While phishing emails need to evade spam folders, a phone call, especially into the Sales, HR or Customer Service department, is far more likely to be answered. According to a recent report by PinDrop Security, enterprise phone fraud incidents are up 30% since 2013, and it's not just enterprises that are suffering. Average consumers are at risk, too. The report also indicates that U.S. consumers receive over 86 million scam phone calls per month. If individuals are unable to safeguard their own data, how can they expect to protect their organizations?
Because vishing is a growing problem, many organizations haven't properly trained employees to look out for malicious telephone activity. Therefore vishing calls often go unreported and often unnoticed. Many times, attackers aren't looking for money, passwords or other confidential data directly. The call could be very discrete and even seem innocuous. The main goal is to obtain information. Even the tiniest, most insignificant detail, such as weekly delivery date or the type of printer used, can be used to construct a believable follow-on pretext.
Sometimes attackers are looking to obtain the information necessary to impersonate an employee or representative of an organization. For example, an attacker could pose as a representative from corporate headquarters and call individual employees to "update a database" and walk away with enough information to impersonate the employee called. In this instance, the attacker would ask for bits of information such as employee ID numbers, social security numbers or other information that could be used to impersonate the employee and breach the organization by conducting future vishing calls with internal support. By this point the attacker may have enough information to pass any knowledge-based authentication, or the ability to talk their way around it. Using the information obtained from just a few phone calls, the attacker could execute an account takeover to breach the organization's network.
Since there is no technology that can save employees from vishers or stop an attack completely, the only way to defend against vishing attacks is through education. It is important to properly educate employees how to act before, during and after a vishing attacks. Awareness programs that employ automated phone systems to conduct vishing training are not adequately preparing employees to combat real world attackers. It's easy to hang up on an automated system; but do your employees have the training necessary to resist a friendly real person? Real vishing attacks are executed by real callers, therefore assessment and training should, as well.
Securing your organization against vishing attacks with VaaS
Social-Engineer's Vishing as a Service offering allows organizations to adequately test and train their employees to respond to vishing attacks.
By conducting an initial wave of realistic vishing calls, an organization's baseline susceptibility to vishing attacks can be established. From there each organization is provided with a thorough debriefing that focuses on a remediation and education program catered to meet the organization's specific needs. This process is then repeated with enhanced and advanced methods of vishing awareness education. Rather than simply training staff to look for suspicious activity, the Social-Engineer team teaches users to apply critical thinking in order to recognize vishing calls. Employees are trained on how to properly report and respond suspicious calls without handing over any information. By conducting ongoing and regular vishing assessment and training campaigns, organizations can equip employees with the knowledge to stop phone fraudsters in their tracks.
For more information on Social Engineer's VaaS offerings visit our VaaS Service Page.
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Now come on, you don't have to admit it … but guaranteed: most of us reading this have taken a second gander at one of these offers at least once. I know I have However, even if you've fallen for this tactic in the past, you likely now realize that these claims are bogus or, at best, contain excessive amounts of fluff. And so we tend to cast a skeptical eye, because we've finally accepted the fact that when an offer seems too good to be true it likely is.
What does this have to do with pentesting?
Unfortunately, in the world of security we've begun to see a small trend in which companies are attempting to acquire customers by making a statement to the effect of, "we have a 100% success ratio" or "we are the only company that does X, Y and Z with a 100% success ratio."
Many fellow pentesters reading this article will agree that a claim like this can be offensive, and also discrediting to the companies that feel they need to use this tactic to sell their services. Let's examine this claim from two different angles; first, the perspective of the customer, and then the perspective of the security professional.
The Customer Angle
Imagine you are an IT or security professional working for a large company; you are tasked with finding the best partner to help you 1) develop a culture of security awareness 2) protect your company from malicious attacks and 3) act as your teammate and advocate. Can you imagine yourself in that boat?
Now what is important to you as that person tasked to pick the very best and right partner for your organization? Is it the fact that they claim to have a 100% success ratio? Is it the fact that the claim to be the only ones on earth that do a certain thing? Is it the fact that they claim to be the undefeated heavyweight champions of the universe in pentesting?
Probably not. As a matter of fact, if you even believe the ludicrous idea that anyone can truly say they have a 100% success ratio (more on that later), you wouldn't want someone with whom there is no hope for you to ever succeed, would you? Constant failure is no fun for you or your people. Yet you aren't looking for someone who will let you "win" just to stroke your ego.
How does one make an informed decision? The answer: You must ask the right questions and do your research. Here are some questions for you to consider when making this decision:
This is not an exhaustive list, merely one that can help you to acquire the information necessary for making informed decisions.
The Pentester Angle
As a pentester, we have to ask ourselves, " What is important to me as a pentester?" Is it always "getting in", "winning", owning everything in my site? Of course, the hacker in me wants to "win" but the security consultant in me that cares about his customers takes a step back and repeats this motto, "I can think like the bad guy but always remember I am the good guy." The end goal of any of our engagements is to make our customers more secure.
As the good guy it's important to remember there are real people, real feelings and real emotions behind every company. Here's a story to illustrate: Five or six years ago, right around the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in NYC, our CEO, Chris, had written a phish that was very popular in the wild, portraying itself as a charity for 9/11. The phish was strategically developed, well written and ready to be sent to our client population. The email was first sent to the POC for approval, and they loved it. The phish was certain to get a high number of clicks and make people think. However, what we were not prepared for was the one person in the meeting who spoke up and said, "Just as an FYI, there are five people in the company who lost family or friends in those attacks."
Did we know that using this phish would prove successful? Yes. But, it could also have the potential to be emotionally damaging for those five individuals. Would they truly learn a security lesson from this attack or would they remember how they were exploited using a terrible disaster? The goal of any security assessor and trainer is to ensure the organization benefits from the service. As professionals, our organization opted to do what was best for the training of this customer and its employees. We re-wrote the phish as a different charity. We then took a screenshot of the 9/11 email for the internal intranet training page built to educate employees. The email was used in a positive way to show employees what could be used against them without causing emotional damage that would lead to further security setbacks.
To this day we still do business with that company, and our relationship with them is strong.
But did we have 100% success?
The Truth Behind the Numbers
If you were to come and analyze Social-Engineer, Inc.'s records and see what our success ratio is, you would be presented with 100% success; well, that is if we used marketing math.
Let's say company X hires us to conduct a security assessment that involves breaking into four buildings, and the phishing and vishing of 500 people. Once completed, we have successfully entered three buildings, had a 60% click ratio on the phish and influenced more than 80% of the vishing targets to give us their DOB and SSN. What is our percentage?
The way we do math is 75% + 60% + 80% = an average of 72%. 100% success would involve breaking into 4 buildings, receiving 500 clicks and having every single employee blindly provide their date of birth and social security number to unverified callers. There are simply too many unknowns to make this claim. When companies claim 100% success, we implore you to take caution and look at the probabilities of such vast claims.
If a real attacker sent your 500 people a phish and 1 person clicked, they have compromised your company – that is success, right? Sure, but it is not 100% success. Not from a true security consultant's point of view.
Is it really that important?
At the end of the day, you have to make decisions on who to work with. But in my years of experience working on both sides of the fence, rarely was, "I never fail at pwning my clients" a serious factor in my decision.
We'll leave you with this question to meditate over: If you are looking for a partner to help with your phishing, vishing, break-ins, social engineering consulting or auditing – are you looking for someone who touts their amazing ability to always win, or someone who is ready to work with your organization to get a collaborative win?
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Criminal attacks are highly targeted. When it comes down to it, attackers will stop at nothing to break into an organization. They will use whatever means necessary to infiltrate, especially if those means are low risk. It's far easier for attackers to bypass technical controls and exploit human nature to breach an organization than to compromise a network surrounded by technical controls. Unfortunately, there is plenty of overlap between the proactive criminal and the unsuspecting employee that really adds fuel to the fire. Despite the balance of breaches shifting to criminal activity, organizations are beginning to recognize the importance of starting with employees first.
According to Ponemon's study, the data backs this up as healthcare organizations rank employee negligence as a top concern when it comes to the exposure of patient data. Employee negligence goes far beyond the occasional lost or stolen laptop. What about when an employee accidentally discloses confidential data? A whopping 70% of Ponemon survey respondents admitted that careless or negligent employees are the most concerning security incidents impacting their organization, but what can be done to help?
While organizations are gradually increasing budgets and resources to protect both healthcare and business data, not enough investment is being made in human capital to address the evolving threat landscape. It's time for organizations to start investing in a culture of security that makes employees the first line of defense.
Do your employees know what a phishing email is? Is there a process in place for the verification of a caller's identity? Do you have a process in place to report security incidents? If you're unsure of the answers to one or more of these questions, odds are you are not engaging in a culture of security.
What does a culture of security look like?
A culture of security begins with active testing and training of employees for security awareness. Employees who know they are being actively tested have heightened awareness for security initiatives and are more apt to shut down an attempt to exfiltrate information or breach confidential client data. Buy-in for the culture of security should start at the top down, and from there, it's all hands on deck. It is the responsibility of each and every employee to contribute to a culture of security.
Exposure, exposure, exposure!
Not only should organizations implement continuous training initiatives, but they should also work to publicly reward employees who successfully respond to or report security incidents. Create a blog post, send out an organization-wide email, post it on a bulletin board, hand out a gift card, publicly recognize employees who embrace a culture of security at company meetings… a bit of positive reinforcement goes a long way! If you're interested in learning more about the benefits of Social-Engineer's security testing and training services, contact us to learn more!
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RSA boasts not one, but two giant expo halls full of exhibitors. We anticipate you'll experience an overwhelming number of booths filled with security buzzwords such as "threat intelligence," "threat protection," and "cloud security." While the security products are a great part of RSA, we'd like to see attendees focus more on security services and the role of the human element in security and incident response. Remember, technical control and policies are only part of the solution. If you're interested in building a security program that combats malicious phishing emails or generates user awareness, we certainly hope you'll check out Michele's presentation: Phishing Dark Waters: The Malicious Side of Emails. Also, if you're interested in setting up a private meeting to discuss security matters, shoot us an email and we'll do our best to accommodate.
Finally, the Human Hacker himself, fresh from a top-secret training, will make an appearance on Thursday for a book signing you won't want to miss! Following is a who, what, when and where of Social-Engineer at RSA next week. Will you be attending the conference? We hope to see you there!
Who: Social-Engineer
Presentations: Michele Fincher
"Phishing Dark Waters – Defending Against Malicious Emails"
Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 1:10 PM – Room 2022 Moscone West
Wednesday April 22, 2015, 11:30 AM – Room 2020 Moscone West
What, When & Where: Book Signing
Chris Hadnagy & Michele Fincher
Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive & Defensive Side of Malicious Emails
Thursday, April 23, 11:30 am
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What is a phishing attack? Phishing is a social engineering technique and we define it as the practice of sending emails that appear to be from reputable sources with the goal of influencing or gaining personal information.
How do you know if you've come across a phishing attack? Is there a way to determine if an email is legitimate or not without clicking? The answers are all inside the latest book from social engineering experts Chris Hadnagy and Michele Fincher. From the private user who wants online protection, to the team in charge of an enterprise information security awareness program, the book provides actionable defensive techniques and tools to help readers and organizations steer clear of malicious phishing emails.
What if I already know what phishing is? Can I still learn from this book? The answer is yes. Phishing Dark Waters provides insight into the financial, corporate espionage, nation-state and identity theft goals of attackers. Readers will benefit from the comprehensive analysis of high profile breaches at some of the world's most well-known organizations.
Fincher and Hadnagy also provide useful insight for both organizations and individuals by exploring the underlying psychology behind phishers and how they use influence and manipulation to launch effective attacks. Readers will walk away with a firm understanding of the basics of identifying suspicious emails all the way to how to design a program that leverages the phisher's own weapons against him to protect assets.
I already have an anti-phishing technology in place… should I read Phishing Dark Waters? Again, the answer is yes! Fincher and Hadnagy share their 30+ years of combined experience to provide a comparison of top phishing tools and examine reasons why most security awareness programs do not work. Phishing Dark Waters provides tips for creating a corporate phishing program integrated into organizational policies, that works.
Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious Emails is available today on Amazon. Get your copy and arm yourself with the knowledge to defend against prevalent phishing attacks.
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What Exactly is Whaling & Why is it Successful?
Similar to spear phishing, whaling is a highly targeted attack that goes after an organization's "big phish." Big phish are high-value individuals whose credentials or access to resources, if compromised, could endanger the entire business. In whaling attacks, big phish are carefully chosen because of their position within the organization. Whaling attacks also may differ from phishing attacks in terms of scope. The number of emails distributed is very small compared to a massive phishing campaign that might involve hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands or more e-mails being sent. Whaling attacks can be more difficult to detect because they are stealthier and fewer in number. Attackers favor senior executives, high level officials in private businesses, or even those with privileged access to government information.
Often the content of whaling emails is high level, specifically designed for senior management, and can even take the form of an official report, containing highly confidential information. Sometimes emails can contain extremely personal content certain to appeal to the individual. Whalers also make proper use of corporate logos and leverage real spoofed phone numbers. Because of the high value targets, whalers can afford more time and effort into crafting the attack for far higher chances of success.
Unfortunately, any executive with high-level corporate access runs the risk of being targeted in a whaling attack. To complicate matters, executives who have not had proper training will often not be as keen at picking out seemingly legitimate email based attacks. Due to dispersed geographic location and a plethora of tools used for communication (email, IM, Skype, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Lync, Google+ etc.) there is a decrease in personal interaction and an increase in new attack vectors to carry out whaling attacks.
Social Media – Foundation for a Whaling Attack
The foundation for a successful whaling attack is information about the intended victim. Powered by corporate databases and social networking sites, any bit of information an attacker can find will be useful. At the very minimum, most whaling attacks involve the name, job and some very basic details about the targets. However, whalers will try to have more than just the basic information , for example, if a whaler can find out about a specific hobby or charity that an executive is involved with, the attacker can craft a personal email that the unsuspecting victim is highly likely to click. Executives with open public profiles are ground zero for whaling attacks. Whalers can use birthdates, addresses, obituary notifications and more to siphon information on targets and entice them to click. The source of information, however, is not limited to OSINT. Sometimes attackers will target third-party companies to get their foot in the door or even begin with a phishing attack to gather general information that can be used to escalate an attack to primary targets.
Whaling attacks are a very targeted type of phishing attack, and phishing attacks aren't going away anytime soon – they're far too effective. A recent McAffee quiz presented 10 email messages, which were a mixture of genuine messages and phishing campaigns to test business users' ability to detect online scams, and a whopping 80% of participants failed to detect at least one of seven phishing emails. When armed with real information, these types of attacks are extremely difficult for the uneducated user to detect.
What Can You do to Stop Corporate Whaling?
First and foremost, every corporate executive should have their social media profiles locked down. This doesn't mean refrain from using social media, but it does mean implementing privacy restrictions to prevent unknown individuals from viewing what could be sensitive information. If for some reason your job means you have to be in the public eye, then at the very least you need to be educated on how that information can be used against you.
It's recommended that all corporate information security professionals and red teams have an accurate idea of what open source intelligence is out there that could potentially be used against the organization. If you are unsure where to even start with this, contact our team to discuss how you can conduct and benefit from a social engineering risk assessment.
Traditionally the security industry has focused on technical attacks that lead to breaches , but it's high time for organizations to focus on the tactics and techniques attackers may use to circumvent technical controls. A good place to start is with the assessment of your organization's overall susceptibility to phishing attacks to determine a baseline. Our team here at Social-Engineer, Inc is dedicated to security through education. Contact us today to learn more about how a managed phishing program can be carefully crafted to fit your organization's unique needs.
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In this video by DMPranksProductions, strangers witness either a businessman or a homeless man fall to the ground. Both actors perform their fall ten times each and yield dramatically different results. The businessman was helped every time; the homeless man was helped twice. This might not be surprising but it is a good example of people making risk assessments and acting in what they feel is in their best interest.
Whether or not a homeless man is more dangerous than a man in a suit is not the point; the point is that people perceive giving assistance to a homeless man invites more risk into their lives. This dictates their behavior. The homeless man, to most people, automatically represents something less approachable solely due to his appearance. This alone makes people less likely to share time and energy, not to mention other complicating factors such as tribe mentality and bystander apathy.
The variables within a social engineer's control should be considered and adjusted to reasonably lower perceived risk and maximize opportunities during an engagement. Depending on both the social engineer and target's age, gender, physical stature or personality, there can be many different considerations. Remember, as white hat operators, the use of influence is preferred over manipulation. We want clients to leave feeling better for having met us, and make the decision to "help" us.
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Weill-Marchesani syndrome
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What is Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
Weill-Marchesani syndrome is a disorder of connective tissue. Connective tissue forms the body's supportive framework, providing structure and strength to the muscles, joints, organs, and skin.
The major signs and symptoms of Weill-Marchesani syndrome include short stature, eye abnormalities, unusually short fingers and toes (brachydactyly), and joint stiffness. Adult height for men with Weill-Marchesani syndrome ranges from 4 feet, 8 inches to 5 feet, 6 inches. Adult height for women with this condition ranges from 4 feet, 3 inches to 5 feet, 2 inches.
An eye abnormality called microspherophakia is characteristic of Weill-Marchesani syndrome. This term refers to a small, sphere-shaped lens, which is associated with nearsightedness (myopia) that worsens over time. The lens also may be positioned abnormally within the eye (ectopia lentis). Many people with Weill-Marchesani syndrome develop glaucoma, an eye disease that increases the pressure in the eye and can lead to blindness.
Occasionally, heart defects or an abnormal heart rhythm can occur in people with Weill-Marchesani syndrome.
How common is Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
Weill-Marchesani syndrome appears to be rare; it has an estimated prevalence of 1 in 100,000 people.
What genes are related to Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
Mutations in the ADAMTS10 and FBN1 genes can cause Weill-Marchesani syndrome. The ADAMTS10 gene provides instructions for making a protein whose function is unknown. This protein is important for normal growth before and after birth, and it appears to be involved in the development of the eyes, heart, and skeleton. Mutations in this gene disrupt the normal development of these structures, which leads to the specific features of Weill-Marchesani syndrome.
A mutation in the FBN1 gene has also been found to cause Weill-Marchesani syndrome. The FBN1 gene provides instructions for making a protein called fibrillin-1. This protein is needed to form threadlike filaments, called microfibrils, that help provide strength and flexibility to connective tissue. The FBN1 mutation responsible for Weill-Marchesani syndrome leads to an unstable version of fibrillin-1. Researchers believe that the unstable protein interferes with the normal assembly of microfibrils, which weakens connective tissue and causes the abnormalities associated with Weill-Marchesani syndrome.
In some people with Weill-Marchesani syndrome, no mutations in ADAMTS10 or FBN1 have been found. Researchers are looking for other genetic changes that may be responsible for the disorder in these people.
How do people inherit Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
Weill-Marchesani syndrome can be inherited in either an autosomal recessive or an autosomal dominant pattern.
When Weill-Marchesani syndrome is caused by mutations in the ADAMTS10 gene, it has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. Autosomal recessive inheritance means both copies of the gene in each cell have mutations. The parents of an individual with an autosomal recessive condition each carry one copy of the mutated gene, but they typically do not show signs and symptoms of the condition.
Other cases of Weill-Marchesani syndrome, including those caused by mutations in the FBN1 gene, have an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. Autosomal dominant inheritance means one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder. In most cases, an affected person inherits the genetic change from one parent with the condition.
Where can I find information about diagnosis or management of Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
These resources address the diagnosis or management of Weill-Marchesani syndrome and may include treatment providers.
You might also find information on the diagnosis or management of Weill-Marchesani syndrome in Educational resources and Patient support.
General information about the diagnosis and management of genetic conditions is available in the Handbook. Read more about genetic testing, particularly the difference between clinical tests and research tests.
To locate a healthcare provider, see How can I find a genetics professional in my area? in the Handbook.
Where can I find additional information about Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
You may find the following resources about Weill-Marchesani syndrome helpful. These materials are written for the general public.
You may also be interested in these resources, which are designed for healthcare professionals and researchers.
What other names do people use for Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
For more information about naming genetic conditions, see the Genetics Home Reference Condition Naming Guidelines and How are genetic conditions and genes named? in the Handbook.
What if I still have specific questions about Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
Where can I find general information about genetic conditions?
The Handbook provides basic information about genetics in clear language.
These links provide additional genetics resources that may be useful.
What glossary definitions help with understanding Weill-Marchesani syndrome?
autosomal ; autosomal dominant ; autosomal recessive ; brachydactyly ; cell ; congenital ; connective tissue ; gene ; glaucoma ; inheritance ; inherited ; joint ; microfibrils ; mutation ; myopia ; nearsightedness ; pattern of inheritance ; prevalence ; protein ; recessive ; short stature ; stature ; syndrome ; tissue
You may find definitions for these and many other terms in the Genetics Home Reference Glossary.
See also Understanding Medical Terminology.
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The resources on this site should not be used as a substitute for professional medical care or advice. Users seeking information about a personal genetic disease, syndrome, or condition should consult with a qualified healthcare professional. See How can I find a genetics professional in my area? in the Handbook.