{"id":6769,"date":"2020-10-12T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T11:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2020-10-17T03:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T07:55:20","slug":"week-7-readings-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/2020\/10\/12\/week-7-readings-social-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7 Readings: Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This paper goes over the process of social engineering. Social engineers are essentially actors that try to exfiltrate data or gain entry to a building by deceiving people. There are 4 phases in a social engineering attack, Information gathering, developing relationships, execution, and exploitation. Once the proper intel is gathered on a target, the attacker can assume a myriad of roles to achieve his\/her goal. The attacker can pretend to be an important user such as a senior manager or a helpless user that requires assistance to gain access to the organizations systems. The most popular attack seems to be embedding an email with malicious code that can trigger a virus or a remote shell to the victims computer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Questions for the class:<\/p>\n<p>What are some preventative measures used in combating Social Engineering?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper goes over the process of social engineering. Social engineers are essentially actors that try to exfiltrate data or gain entry to a building by deceiving people. There are 4 phases in a social engineering attack, Information gathering, developing relationships, execution, and exploitation. Once the proper intel is gathered on a target, the attacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25060,"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":[803560],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-07-netcat-and-hellcat","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6771,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}