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“Pulling Strings” in Internal Auditor Magazine
The article by Russell Jackson (2018) entitled “Pulling Strings: High-level hackers are using social engineering tactics to manipulate employees into giving up vital information,” the subject of hackers using deceptive practices to trick employees into giving up company data is discussed. Jackson (2018) describes how hackers have now realized that it is easier to use deception and fool workers into granting access to organizational data than to actually try to hack their way into an organization’s system and steel information. As Jackson (2018) points out, “well-intentioned employees will offer account numbers, volunteer passwords, and even open locked security doors if the request seems reasonable or the threat seems real?—?or if the stranger seeking physical access is a decent actor with an adequate disguise.” Workers fall for four basic social engineering ruses—(a) content in a strange email that looks inviting, (b) provocative social media messages that they just have to respond to, (c) fake package deliveries, and (d) exciting offers made over the telephone. Jackson (2018) states that auditors have to know what the trends in social engineering are so that they can help...
The victim gives up all security by clicking on suspicious links in an email or text messaging and clicking a button on a website they’ve been directed to. The main method used by the hacker is persuasion: the hacker convinces the employee that it is in the best interest of the organization to follow the directions. Oftentimes, employees are undone simply by curiosity: they do not exercise the critical thinking skills needed to assess the threat level of a strange email, text or phone call. Employees have to be advised by organizations to be on the lookout for such communications and the organization has to develop a protocol to follow for every communication received.
Social engineering training can help organizations and their employees to be better prepared to handle any of the above described tactics. The goal is for employees to be mindful of the different ways that hackers could be out to dupe them. Getting into the practice of always asking for ID even if it might seem rude is the best approach. To get over the fear of possibly offending someone, social engineering training is designed to educate workers on…
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They would sometimes be using the school curriculum as an excuse to hack pertinent information that are government or privately owned. At some point, these students would be challenging themselves if they will be able to create and send unnecessary information (such as computer viruses) to other computer systems. This will provide extreme joy and satisfaction for these students. However, the issue here lies on how can this be
All of these tools make it possible for a hacker to not only corrupt the application itself in terms of accessing confidential information, but further allow for the hacker to spread damage deep into the application to attack other systems, essentially able to shut down an entire application with the corruption of contained information. Though some of the aforementioned tactics involve the physical infiltration of a company in order to