Essays on Social Engineering

Phishing Alarm Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where the attacker tries to imitate the original website to steal the user’s sensitive data like login credentials, credit card numbers SSN numbers, etc. The attacker lures the victim to enter his personal data by…

The above topic is about the one of the major social threat these days which is Phishing. This is mainly used to steal the user credentials illegally using a fake website or an interface which looks as the real one. With the help of this…

Footprinting, which is the basic process that every hacker does before performing any attack. Where do they get information from? Well, in some cases people become the victims by themselves to the attacks such as identity theft. This usually happens when people share their information…

Social engineering is the terminology that hackers use to describe attempts to obtain information about computer systems through nontechnical means. In 2015, Ubiquiti, a specialized manufacturer of wifi hardware and software based in San Jose, discovered this out the most difficult way possible when their…