Week 07: Social Engineering

During class, we talked about Vishing.  Below is a link to a short video that shows an IT professional being duped after receiving compliments, a promise of an award, in exchange for his contact details and credit card information to pay for shipping the “reward”.

After watching your video at https://youtu.be/D_yAYhjNE-0 , What social engineering tactics did you observe in the video?

 

 

Social Engineering involves acting and using psychology to get information from a target.  As a follow-up to our discussions regarding social engineering, research an article of an incident where social engineering was essential for the incident / breach to have occurred.

In your post, include the URL so that others can read the article being referenced.