Social Engineering
Social engineering is the art of tricking someone into giving you something he or she should not. Hackers skilled in social engineering target the help desk, onsite employees, and even contractors. Social engineering is one of the most potentially dangerous attacks, as it does not directly target technology. An organization can have the best firewalls, IDS, network design, authentication system, or access controls and still be successfully attacked by a social engineer. That’s because the attacks target people. To gain a better understanding of how social engineering works, let’s look at the different approaches these attacks use, discuss how these [...]
Categories: Concept, Internet Security Tags: primary defense to social engineering, Social Engineering
