Social Engineering In Cyber Security Training Ppt

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This slide gives an overview of social engineering cyber attacks. Social engineering is used to describe a wide range of malicious activities carried out through human interactions.

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This slide depicts the social engineering lifecycle. The steps are as follows: Prepare, infiltrate, exploit the victim, and disengage.

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This slide lists types of social engineering techniques. These are baiting, pretexting, scareware, phishing, watering hole attacks, and access tailgating.

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This slide talks about baiting, a social engineering technique. Baiting attacks use a fake promise to pique a victim’s curiosity or greed. They trick users into falling for a trap that steals their confidential information or inflicts their devices with malware.

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This slide discusses pretexting which is a social engineering technique. Pretexting uses a false identity as the “pretext” for building trust, such as directly impersonating a vendor or a facility employee.

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This slide talks about scareware which is a social engineering technique. Scareware is a type of malware designed to scare you into taking action. This malicious malware sends warnings that report fake malware infections or claim that one of your accounts has been compromised.

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This slide revisits phishing which can be considered as a social engineering technique. Phishing scams are email or text message campaigns devised to trick people into divulging sensitive or financial information about themselves.

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This slide talks about watering hole attacks. These attacks target popular websites with malware to affect multiple users simultaneously.

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This slide gives information about access tailgating which is a social engineering technique. Tailgating, also known as piggybacking, is following an authorized employee into an area with limited access.

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This slide highlights two unusual techniques of social engineering. These are traditional mail malware distribution and fax-based phishing.

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This slide talks about fax-based phishing to execute a social engineering attack. Cybercriminals sometimes use unusual methods such as fax instead of the usual email or internet routes to mislead people into revealing their private information.

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This slide discusses traditional mail malware distribution as a type of social engineering technique. Cybercriminals once used a home-delivery service in Japan to distribute CDs infected with Trojan spyware.

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This slide highlights questions to ask yourself if you suspect a social engineering attack.