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Social engineering

Social engineering

- [Instructor] In this video, we'll talk about social engineering. Social engineering is essentially trickery or deception by a malicious user in an attempt to have victims divulge sensitive information. So it's really considered a malicious user reconnaissance technique, which means that it's a way for a malicious user to learn about a system or person. The idea being that we want to trick someone into somehow installing some kind of malware. So, in essence, the victim believes in the legitimacy of the perpetrator. Divulging sensitive information comes in many forms, whether a malicious user is trying to get ahold of usernames, passwords, credit cards, banking information and so on. So as an example of social engineering, perpetrators will often try to exploit people's fears and greed, and that will come in the form of perhaps, coming across as if they are someone from authority, like a tax department official or law enforcement, or trying to tell someone that they've won a lottery…

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