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Of course only the truly oblivious people fall for this |
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Workers were asked a series of questions which included: What is your password? Three in four (75 per cent) of people immediately gave their password.
If they initially refused they were asked which category their password fell into and then asked a further question to find out the password. Another 15 per cent were then prepared to give over their passwords, after the most rudimentary of social engineering tricks were applied. One interviewee said, "I am the CEO, I will not give you my password - it could compromise my company's information". A good start, but then the company boss blew it. He later said that his password was his daughter's name. What is your daughters name, the interviewer cheekily asked. He replied without thinking: "Tasmin". |
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Social Engineering is focusing on the weakest chain of the IT security. Humans and their psychology. way of exploiting all weakness of a person’s character, based upon simple lies to applying psychological, brutal violence upon the “subject”. |
The_Real_Gandalf wrote: |
It will be easier to educate them how to confront any Social Engineering attempts with certain sentences , like "Please wait a minute to confirm this with my supervisor" or " i will get back to you leave me , your phone nymber". They are quite effective in a typical "speech social attack". |
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I love you lets make love. |
dogsitterz wrote: | ||
Simplifying Social Engineering as just "con artist" is a over simplification of a very deep area of professional studies. It uses any and all tools discovered in psychology, sociology, technology and is ever evolving in each area of study which all lead to tools and techniques. Moderator note: edited to fix quote (enabled BBCode) - capi |
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