15% OF USERS WILL DIVULGE LOGON CREDENTIALS TO STRANGERS – SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACKS
Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information and/or proprietary information, non-disclosed information or usernames and passwords. It is the classic approach of the confidence man, convincing someone he or she is something they are not. If you think your personnel would never be fooled, you’re fooling yourself. There is a reason this approach to criminal activity has a long successful history. Examples of Social Engineering Attacks and Social Engineering Psychology In the early days of computer security, social engineering might have involved a hacker calling one of your employees and talking him or her into giving up authentication credentials or login information to private systems. The current state of the art makes this
