14.5.1 Social Engineering

Learn about the different social engineering attacks.

Social engineering is the practice of manipulating and exploiting the biggest flaw with technology, people, in order to gain unauthorized access to secure data. There are several different social engineering attacks.

Computer-Based Attacks

• Phishing
• Spear Phishing
• Whaling
• Evil Twin Attack

Human-Based Attacks

• Tailgating
• Impersonation
• Shoulder Surfing
• Dumpster Diving (?)