Category: Social Engineering

Penetration testing is an attempt to evaluate the degree of security of IT or any functioning infrastructure by attacking it from various aspects. There could be many vulnerabilities in an IT system which could be exploited to perform unauthorized actions on the system. That is why penetration testing is done on the system beforehand to…

After reflecting on the quote from Dr. Thomas Plante about social engineering and learning about behavior intervention, I believe that both approaches can lead to effective behavior change depending on what the behavior is. I agree with Dr. Plantes quote to an extent because it can be very hard for people to make significant, lasting…

Does Social Engineering Really Work? Does social engineering really work? Yes, I believe it does. The main two reasons that I believe social engineering in the context of cybercrime works, is because firstly, it targets what I think is the weakest link in any digital security system, the human. The second reason why I believe…

Chapter 1: Literature Review What is Social Engineering? The term Social Engineering is simply the process of manipulating the user into disclosing either his sensitive information or his personal identifiable information (which could be referred to as PII) to the social engineer. According to (Conteh and Schmick, 2016) social engineering is also known as human…

Abstract In the Cyberspace domain, the rate of cyber-attack is rising every day. This reason initiates the need to encourage individuals to become Cyber Warriors. To have a better understanding of a Cyber Warrior, we need to know the training, requirement, skills, and knowledge to obtain and also its difference with a traditional warrior. Social…

Introduction When thinking about the security of information systems, the predominant concern is with digital security. Performing evaluations and assessments to identify risks and vulnerabilities that may comprise the information stored within the system. However, often is the case the largest threat and easily exploitable vulnerability is overlooked, humans. Some of the biggest hacks of…

Abstract While an image of a person with high technical skills exploiting the system has been used many times to demonstrate a hacker, a new type of attack is changing that, its called the Social Engineering attack. This paper will go deeper into explaining what Social Engineering is and the principle behind it. Popular attacks…