Social Engineering: Hacking a Human Being through Technology
Journal Title: IOSR Journals (IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering) - Year 2016, Vol 18, Issue 5
Abstract
Abstract: Social engineering is the art of extracting classified information by psychological manipulation. It is a strategical attack that depends on human interaction, a complex fraud system, tricking individuals into giving their password and bank information. It is a simple preference of criminals to exploit peoples trust rather thantechnology, since it is easier to exploithumans’ natural inclination to trust. Lack of awareness has caused for such social engineering crimes to have been overlooked and not treated as a major threat. The objective of this review paper is to lay emphasize on the human element which is the biggest threat to the security of a companyor organization and to highlight social engineering based attacks as one of the major threats to the society. The increase in the usage of such scams and con attacks on the weakest security links to information: humans, have caused major individual and occupational loss. The problem with social engineering is that it is among the mostunder researched and most effective cyber-crimes. It is viewed outside the domains of computer security since there are no technical solutions to this problem.
Authors and Affiliations
Akshat Jain , Harshita Tailang , Harsh Goswami , Soumiya Dutta , Mahipal Singh Sankhla , Rajeev Kumar
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