Can social engineering attacks be detected? Social engineering attacks usually have signs that can be spotted if you know what they are. However, since there are different types of social engineering attacks, it can be harder to know when to look for them. In short, any time information is exchanged in some form of communication, […]
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Social Engineering can be summed up as ‘hacking the human’. Traditional malicious hacking attacks a digital instance of an organisation (i.e. website, network or system) and attempts to gain unauthorised access or cause harm by exploiting a vulnerability. Social engineering instead focuses on a person and attempts to exploit human frailties by coercing or tricking […]