Social Engineering
Explore common social engineering attacks including phishing, pretexting, smishing, and baiting, and understand their methods and impacts. Learn how attackers exploit human behavior to access sensitive information and systems. Gain knowledge of mitigation techniques and tools used to test and strengthen defenses against these attacks to better protect organizational security.
Introduction to social engineering
The aim of hacking is to compromise systems and applications. Social engineering attackers attempt to exploit the users of these systems by pretending to be employees, vendors, or even support personnel to try to trick the workers of those organizations. Unaware and unprepared employees are the ones who’re most vulnerable to social engineering attacks. Attackers may appeal to these people’s willingness to help others or take advantage of their lack of knowledge to try and get them to reveal information that would compromise the system. ...