Tag: Social Engineering Definitions

In a pretexting attack, attackers create a fake identity and use it to manipulate their victims into providing private information.

Attackers collect information from discarded materials such as old computer equipment (e.g., hard drives, thumb drives, DVDs, CDs) and company ...

Baiting attacks use a false promise to pique a victim’s greed or curiosity. They lure users into a trap that ...

Watering hole attacks infect popular webpages with malware to impact many users at a time.

Shoulder Surfing, or Hovering, is simply looking over someone’s shoulder, writing down or memorizing logins or passwords.

Is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to restricted areas, systems or ...