Reaction Paper About Social Engineering

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Internet has transformed our day to day live personally, socially, politically and professionally. The internet impacts our personal, social and business lives. When we wake up in the morning, we use our internet device to check the weather, the news and our social media site. When we get to the office, we check our business emails and respond to them. Before the wide spread use of the internet about 32 years ago people use to talk on landline telephones and people use to TV that use analog equipment. There was no such thing as worldwide web to provide instant access to information. Now internet is almost everywhere and changing our live.
This research paper will focus on social engineering attacks taking place in the digital realm and addresses the following questions. What social engineering is? Why people use social engineer? (motives), the different kinds of social engineering attacks and the best defense strategies against social engineering attacks.
What is social engineering? I asked my coworkers this question and I was surprised about the answers they gave me. Jonas said “Social engineering is lying to Bob the supervisor to get information.” Michael said “Social engineering is being a good actor in whatever you do.” …show more content…

In the same way con artist will use well designed questions to get his or her victim into a vulnerable situation. All examples are social engineering base on trust, but have very different goal and outcomes. Social engineering is not all about the bad guys deceiving people or lying or acting to achieve their aim. Social engineering is not one action but a collection skill, actions and science when put together gives you a good result. In the same way, a delicious meal is not just one ingredient, but is a combination and mixture of different ingredient put together to make it what it

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