social engineering
- Created by: Safeerah
- Created on: 26-02-21 13:39
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- Social Engineering
- Phishing
- Acquiring personal information, for malicious reasons, by pretending to be a known and trusted organisation.
- How to spot a phishing email:
- Spelling/ grammar errors
- Email address
- Email layout
- Requires an urgent response
- Man in the middle
- Hackers secretly intercept communications or alter them.
- Types:
- IP spoofing
- DNS spoofing
- HTTPS spoofing
- SSL high jacking
- Email high jacking
- WIFI eavesdropping
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- Pharming
- redirected to a fake site without their knowledge
- Done by manipulating the IP address or DNS server through the use of an installed Trojan or Virus on the host computer
- Types:
- Pharming malware
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- Whaling
- Phishing that targets a high-ranking individual such as an executive rather than a large group of victims
- Consequences:
- Financial loss
- Loss of data
- damaged reputation
- Phishing
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