Socially Engineered Attacks: What They Are and How to Prevent Them
Social engineering generally implies influencing a person into taking an action they wouldn’t otherwise. As such, malicious social engineering within cybersecurity refers to manipulating humans to access private information or restricted systems. A 2020 report by Verizon estimated 22% of confirmed data breaches involved social engineering attacks, which are scams based on psychological manipulation that […]
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