Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Social engineering

  • Blog about a good case of social engineering
  • Formulate some measures which can reduce the effectiveness of social engineering attempts

  • a. You receive an e-mail where the sender and the manager or someone on behalf of the support department of your bank.

    //Don’t believe everything what is written. Forward the information to the bank. They will deal with it who is the person who was phishing.

    b. You receive an e-mail saying that your computer is infected by a virus. The message suggests that you install a tool available on an Internet site, to eliminate the virus from your computer. Or delete some useful file:)

    //Don’t believe everything what is written. Don’t act. when you answer back then they will know that it is useful to send you these emails. Some people forward these emails with a personal suggestion. If you are admin of these systems, educate your staff.

    c. A stranger calls your house and says it is the technical support of your ISP. Or wherever.

    //Old people usually let strangers in. It is a tricky. You might call to the service to have confirmation.

    d. Someone comes to class and says. Birgy asked me to take this computer to her room.

    //usually people let it happen. The eager ones just help him to carry it also.
    Prevention is to pre-inform that Birgy will never ask it to do. And trust anybody.

    Usually Birgy can walk into any school and get to wherever as she has a good social skills - eg. Exercise in TLÜ 2009 - I asked to see cameras of the building to find out the "hidden corners". Everybody helped me - security and reception. I asked to lend me a mouse "I promised I will get it back". And I got it:) All you need is a smile and good story.

    http://www.webroot.com/En_US/consumer/tips/secure-what-is-social-engineering

    http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/hack/practical_se.txt

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    //people sayalso he was a woman.. not man.. ?


     

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