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Social Engineering

Instinct and trust:

It’s not easy. It could have been almost any one of them using a disguise to gain your trust in some manner.

One of the main things a social engineer counts on is our natural instinct as humans to be helpful to others. They will attempt to build a trusting relationship with their subject (even if only for a moment) and then break that trust by using the information they have obtained for wrong-doing.

Defending against a social engineering attempt is not easy. Usually you won’t know when it occurs until it is too late. But there are a few things you can do that might help.





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Social Engineering Defense