{"id":5584,"date":"2018-09-24T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T21:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2018-09-24T17:10:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T21:10:30","slug":"the-many-faces-of-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/09\/24\/the-many-faces-of-social-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Faces of Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard this phrase used a few times in class and was curious what a social engineering attack actually entails. It seems that it can come in many forms such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phishing<\/li>\n<li>Ransomware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are the two most common forms of social engineering attacks, according to the article below.<\/p>\n<p>In phishing attacks, a victim is commonly lured into opening an email attachment, which downloads some form of malware onto the machine. For example, an employee at a company or government agency could receive an email from someone claiming to be from IT requesting that the employee view an attachment.<\/p>\n<p>In ransomware attacks, a user is tricked into downloading a payload that corrupts or encrypts a user&#8217;s hard drive. The perpetrators remedy the problem after the victim pays them, usually in bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve discussed in class, the best way to prevent these kinds of attacks in a company are through employee training. The more aware people are of the strategies criminals employ, the better.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/digitalguardian.com\/blog\/social-engineering-attacks-common-techniques-how-prevent-attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard this phrase used a few times in class and was curious what a social engineering attack actually entails. It seems that it can come in many forms such as: Phishing Ransomware These are the two most common forms of social engineering attacks, according to the article below. In phishing attacks, a victim is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715345],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-04-enterprise-architecture","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}