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Mitigating social engineering attacks

Mitigating social engineering attacks

From the course: Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn

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Mitigating social engineering attacks

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- Social engineering is when a hacker will use deception, manipulation or intimidation to get credentials needed to gain access to a network resource. Hackers can use publicly available information found on internet sites, like Facebook to give up enough access to deduce a password by using various combinations of names and birthdays as passwords. Or to be used when calling a help desk for a password reset. In 2020, almost a quarter of all breaches were related to social engineering. Because with the right information, people can be manipulated into giving away information to help the hacker gain access. There are several popular ways social engineering attacks can be successful. The first is phishing, typically used in email. Phishing attackers impersonate a legitimate user and use fear, urgency or curiosity to deceive their targets. The attacker's aim is to get users to click on a malicious link, open a malware…

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