Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Cyber attacks are nothing new. The moment computers started becoming essential to our personal and professional lives, hackers were looking for ways to manipulate them and us for their own ends. Social media has become just another way for scammers to target people and businesses, and according to the 2015 Information Security Breaches Survey, 13% of large organisations had a security or data breach relating to social networks in 2015. The majority of cyber attacks through social media aren’t done with your traditional hacking methods of manipulating code, etc., but are more personal, targeting the user rather than the computer. This is known as social engineering. Types of social engineering Social engineering exploits people’s trust and good nature, and scammers employ a range of tactics to do this. Phishing – This is probably the most common form of social engineering, instilling a sense of urgency or fear in someone in order to hand over personal data. Those ‘Nigerian Prince’ scams are a well-documented form of phishing. Baiting – Like phishing, but offers the promise of an item or goods in exchange for someone signing up to a service or providing certain information. Pretexting – Again, this is like phishing, but […]
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