Social Engineering

Submitted by amayher on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 23:45

The use of general knowledge about human behavior to trick users into breaking their own security rules.  In other words it is getting a user to provide information, or open up a file or email containing malware by camouflaging the file as something that would attract the user.

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Pollard."Cyber Security PowerPoint". BlackBoard.