Socially Challenged By Social Engineering
Socially Challenged By Social Engineering - A study on Social Engineering trends in corporate culture. Troy Hunt had advertised about the new Ethical Hacking course availability on Twitter, and since then I had wished to opt for Pluralsight learning (where this course was made available.) I got ample opportunities to implement the lessons I was learning this week. A few scenarios that were opportunities in disguise for me to exercise the lessons learned are as follows: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Scenario 1 The first attempt — Creating a sense of urgency. A co-worker lets say ‘X’ who had met the team twice and had spent a considerable amount of time to get to know the work we do, had wished to seek some more information. And it came as an email request. This information which needed to be shared, yes was secure information. What seemed obvious at first but suspicious next because there was a sense of urgency in the email sent. “Need th...