Social engineering can be summed up as hacking the human. Simply put it is the action of leveraging human frailty – our reaction to urgency, to compliance with perceived figures of authority, to taking information at face value – and using it against us as a way of eliciting information or performing unauthorised actions. Social […]
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In this post, you’ll learn why vishing is successful and what you can do to mitigate the risk of being vished. Vishing is a form of social engineering. Much like phishing, it can be used to manipulate people into giving away usernames, passwords and sometimes bank details. Vishing: Exploitation by voice commands Vishing is the […]