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🟣What is social engineering and why is it so powerful?
According to PhishMe Social engineering scams stole over $5 billion worldwide from 2013-2016.
But why?!! Lets find out ...
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#CyberSecurity #Scam #informationsecurity
🟣What is social engineering and why is it so powerful?
According to PhishMe Social engineering scams stole over $5 billion worldwide from 2013-2016.
But why?!! Lets find out ...
🧵
#CyberSecurity #Scam #informationsecurity
👨🏻🔧According to Wikipedia
social engineering is the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. This differs from social engineering within the social sciences, which does not concern the divulging of confidential information
social engineering is the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. This differs from social engineering within the social sciences, which does not concern the divulging of confidential information
In simple words it is hacking the human brain 🧠
🟠Example
"Do you know that if you wrote your password in the comments, twitter will automatically turn the last 4 letters to *** "
Here we hack curiosity, you dont know how many times people believed this and wrote there password
🟠Example
"Do you know that if you wrote your password in the comments, twitter will automatically turn the last 4 letters to *** "
Here we hack curiosity, you dont know how many times people believed this and wrote there password
🔴Do you already see the pattern?
Its soooo powerful because when ever we have a strong emotion we don't think clearly, and thats what scammers and hackers try to exploit, usually phishing emails will have something that triggers your emotions, by making you so happy, afraid
Its soooo powerful because when ever we have a strong emotion we don't think clearly, and thats what scammers and hackers try to exploit, usually phishing emails will have something that triggers your emotions, by making you so happy, afraid
🔵But how do we defend our selves?
The most important thing is to have security awareness and to learn about some of the techniques that those scammers use.
Whenever someone try to make you act immediately take a moment to think about what he said and ask questions.
The most important thing is to have security awareness and to learn about some of the techniques that those scammers use.
Whenever someone try to make you act immediately take a moment to think about what he said and ask questions.
📚if you wanna learn more about social engineering i really recommend this book "social engineering the art of human hacking" by @humanhacker also he has a looot of cool talks on youtube
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