Social Engineering

Social engineering is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to buildings, systems or data.

For example, instead of trying to find a software vulnerability, a social engineer might call an employee and pose as an IT support person, trying to trick the employee into divulging his password.

🎬 - Social Engineering

The act of inventing a story or scenario to gain a targeted victim's interest. This may encourage them to give away confidential information, or even send money.

An attempt to gain personal information about someone by way of deception, eg sending an email pretending to be from their bank asking them for their bank details.

Term used for the processes involving the genetic modification of plants so that they can produce medically useful substances such as drugs and vaccines. A cyberattack that redirects a user from a genuine website to a fake one.

Observing someone’s personal information over their shoulder, for example watching a person enter their PIN in a shop or at a cashpoint.