The Impact of Social Engineer Attack Phases on Improved Security Countermeasures: Social Engineer Involvement as Mediating Variable

Concept of Social Engineering (SE)

There are many definitions of the concept of SE. For instance, Hadnagy (2010) defined SE as the action of operating an individual to take any action that might or can not be in the goal’s greatest attention. Additionaay, SE is a human creative practice to utilize and transform the objective world; engineering is an artificial system and a product to solve some social-economic problems and improve their living conditions (Zhangbao and Yang, 2019).

An Attacker can automate malicious efforts and reduce attacking costs such as sending phishing or spear phishing emails. Moreover, Mitnick and Simon (2011) claimed that SE usages effect to betray persons by considerable them that the social engineer is somebody he is not. Therfore, the social engineer could have took advantage of people to obtain information with or without the used of technology. To better understand the reason for successful engineering attacks the authors would review the psychological impact.