Skip to main content

What is Social Engineering Attacks?

Social engineering attacks are aimed at the weakest part of any IT security system: the end user. These are attacks that attempt to trick the user into responding.

The attack may ply on the user’s sympathy, or link to something of interest (such as the famous Anna Kournikova attack in 2001).

These attacks can be as straightforward as a simple phishing email, or more complex, involving computer-based efforts as well as interactions in the real world.
_________________________

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Burp suite

What is Burpsuite you ask? Burp Suite is a Java based Web Penetration Testing framework. It has become an industry standard suite of tools used by information security professionals to identify vulnerabilities and verify attack vectors for web-based applications. In its simplest form, Burpsuite can be classified as an Interception Proxy. A penetration tester configures their Internet browser to route traffic through the proxy which then acts as a sort of Man In The Middle by capturing and analyzing each request and response to and from the target web application. Individual HTTP requests can be paused, manipulated and replayed back to the web server for targeted analysis of parameter specific injection points. Injection points can be specified for manual as well as automated fuzzing attacks to discover potentially unintended application behaviors, crashes and error messages.   >> BURPSUITE: SOURCE   Burpsuite is created by: PortSwigger Web Security It is av...
Post a Comment
Read more