Abstract: Growth of technologies, interconnected systems and digitalization, securing data becomes a vital concern to governments and organizations. The value of data enforces these governments and organization to implement huge number of security controls to safeguard their data. In fact, no matter of security controls implemented, there is another important factor might cause attacks, data leakage or service interruption which is “Human”. Human is the main part of Social Engineering which is the art of manipulating people to obtain sensitive information. This type of attack is increasing across the world and impacting many organizations. This research paper is going to define certain aspects of social engineering, types of specific social engineering techniques and required security controls to prevent such social engineering attacks.
Keywords: Social Engineering, Attacks, Criminals, Phishing, Baiting, Tailgating, Should Surfing, Dumpster Diving.
Title: Social Engineering Attacks
Author: Fahad Jasim Alanezi
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
Vol. 11, Issue 1, January 2023 - March 2023
Page No: 68-70
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 20-February-2023
