What is Social engineering

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The manipulation of victims to obtain trust for exploitation. Learn more in: Towards a Theory for Explaining Socially-Engineered Cyber Deception and Theft

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Strategy that handles the vulnerabilities produced in people. Learn more in: Redesigning the User Interface of a Learning Platform for Social Engineering Integrating Web Accessibility Basics

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An activity that is conducted by perpetrators on individuals in the hopes of gaining some personal information, such as credit card numbers, banking information, user names, passwords, and so forth. Social engineering can take the form of e-mails, mail, and phone calls. The authors of social engineering activities exploit individuals willing to trust, often with bad consequences. It often relies on non-technical means and involves tricking individuals to give up personal information. Social engineering perpetrators often rely on the goodness and natural tendency of people to help others. Learn more in: Combating Computer Fraud

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It can be defined as the mechanism to obtain information or data of a sensitive nature. In essence, they are persuasive tactics that tend to use the goodwill and lack of caution of users. Learn more in: Social Research Methods in Cybersecurity: From Criminology to Industrial Cybersecurity

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Techniques to manipulate people to obtain information from them that they would not give you voluntarily. Learn more in: The Ethics of Deception in Cyberspace

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An activity that is conducted by perpetrators on individuals in the hopes of gaining some personal information, such as credit card numbers, banking information, user names, passwords, and so forth. Social engineering can take the form of e-mails, mail, and phone calls. The authors of social engineering activities exploit individuals willing to trust, often with bad consequences. It often relies on non-technical means and involves tricking individuals to give up personal information. Social engineering perpetrators often rely on the goodness and natural tendency of people to help others. Learn more in: Understanding Computer Security

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Uses various real-world and electronic methods to coerce users into unknowingly facilitate a compromise whether it be revealing credentials or trying to persuade them to click on a malicious URL link or malware laden file. Learn more in: Attributed State Actors

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The act of gaining either unauthorized access to a system or sensitive information, such as passwords, through the use of trust and relationship building with those who have access to such information. Learn more in: Guarding Corporate Data from Social Engineering Attacks

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It refers to a broad range of malicious activities performed through human interactions. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into revealing sensitive information or making security mistakes. Learn more in: The Anatomy of Phishing Attacks and the Detection and Prevention of Fake Domain Names

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The art of manipulating individuals so they offer up their private information. Learn more in: Realizing a Multi-Layered Mobile Strategy for Underserved Areas for Cybersecurity Leadership

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An attack where the perpetrator uses social skills to trick or manipulate a legitimate employee into providing confidential company information. Learn more in: An Overview of Threats to Information Security

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An attack that uses personal and social skills to persuade the target to behave in violation of security principles. Learn more in: Online Phishing and Solutions

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An attack technique carried out by social engineers seeking unauthorized access to valuable information assets. This technique exploits human vulnerability in the interaction with humans by using deception and manipulation in order to bypass information security policy. Learn more in: Social Engineering in Information Security Breaches and the Factors That Explain Its Success: An Organizational Perspective

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Act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques. Learn more in: Online Social and Business Networks’ Implications for Corporate Strategy

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Manipulating people through their natural trust or desire to help in order to trick them into divulging information or performing actions. Learn more in: Marketing Vulnerabilities in an Age of Online Commerce

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Manipulating people through their natural trust or desire to help in order to trick them into divulging information or performing actions. Learn more in: Marketing Vulnerabilities in an Age of Online Commerce

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A type of attack taking advantage of human gullibility. Learn more in: Network Worms

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The psychological manipulation of victims by cyber perpetrators, in order to get victims to divulge sensitive confidential information, or to perform certain actions that help perpetrators to successfully execute their cyberattacks. Learn more in: The Importance of the Human-Centric Approach in Combating Cyber Threats

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It is the art of manipulating the mental state of the people in an attempt of divulging the sensitive information. It is the most dangerous danger that today’s enterprises are facing. Learn more in: Reviewing the Security Features in Contemporary Security Policies and Models for Multiple Platforms

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A collection of techniques used to manipulate people, often via a computer or telephone, into performing acts or divulging confidential information to facilitate the execution of a fraud. Learn more in: The Complex New World of Information Security

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The art of influencing and manipulating an individual into acting a certain way that they may or may not intend to do otherwise, and that may or may not be in their best interest. Learn more in: Dark Web: A Breeding Ground for ID Theft and Financial Crimes

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Social engineering involves criminals making direct contact with you usually by phone or email. They want to gain your confidence and usually pose as a customer service agent so you’ll give the necessary information needed. This is typically a password, the company you work for, or bank information. Cybercriminals will find out what they can about you on the internet and then attempt to add you as a friend on social accounts. Once they gain access to an account, they can sell your information or secure accounts in your name. Learn more in: The Vulnerability of Children in Cyberspace

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Manipulating people to reveal confidential information that will usually be used in criminal activities. Learn more in: Data Privacy vs. Data Security

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The act of obtaining private information through non-technical means. Learn more in: The Security Impacts on Social Media Platforms

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The exploitation of psychological triggers and cognitive biases as a means to gain unauthorized access to information or information systems. Learn more in: Social Engineering and its Countermeasures

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Social engineering, in the context of information security, is the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. Learn more in: Trends in Malware Attacks: Identification and Mitigation Strategies

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the design and implementation of logical procedures to persuade victims to supply confidential information to a spoofed entity. Learn more in: Emerging Cybercrime Variants in the Socio-Technical Space

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The art and science of manipulating people and processes to get what an attacker wants. Learn more in: Social Engineering Techniques, Password Selection, and Health Care Legislation: A Health Care Setting

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A form of cyberattack that involves psychologically manipulating people into providing sensitive information (e.g., usernames, passwords, credit card numbers). Learn more in: Digital Security Strategy

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It refers to a wide range of malicious activities carried out through human interactions. It is based on psychological manipulation to trick users into revealing sensitive information or making security mistakes. Learn more in: Potential Threats of Social Engineering Practices to Social Work: Concepts, Challenges, and Solutions

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Acquiring information about computer systems through non-technical means (Winkler, 1996). Also defined as the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users (Wikipedia, 2006). Learn more in: Critical Success Factors and Indicators to Improve Information Systems Security Management Actions

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Social engineering is an attack method taking advantage of human nature. Learn more in: Malicious Software in Mobile Devices

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The manipulation of another human being to reveal sensitive or private information (such as through deception), often used to commit fraud. Learn more in: Safe Distances: Online and RL Hyper-Personal Relationships as Potential Attack Surfaces

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attacks taking advantage of human nature for deception. Learn more in: Identity Theft through the Web

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Psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. Learn more in: A Routine Activity Theory-Based Framework for Combating Cybercrime