Cybercriminals perform social engineering techniques such as phishing, baiting and spear phishing to manipulate their targets into disclosing personal information. Social engineering relies on human interaction to get access to the confidential information they need to commit cybercrimes. An attacker may seem unassuming and respectable, possibly claiming to be a new employee, repair person, or […]

In a social engineering attack, an attacker uses human interaction (social skills) to obtain or compromise information about an organization or its computer systems. An attacker may seem unassuming and respectable, possibly claiming to be a new employee, repair person, or researcher and even offering credentials to support that identity. However, by asking questions, he […]

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There are many cyber security risks when using social media. Here are a few to keep in mind.

This is one of many techniques that cyber criminals use. The most useful tools for spreading and attacking are malicious emails and websites. Affected people are tricked by very efficient social engineering to open and read malicious emails. Sophisticated social engineering tricks are used to make people click on malicious links within emails and to […]