Social Engineering
Social engineering refers to pressuring people in a targeted organization to disclose sensitive or confidential information.
Steps of Social Engineering:
Name of Term | Description of term |
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Research | The process of collecting information about the target company |
Select target | The process of Choosing a target employee of a targeted company |
Relationship | It is Gaining the trust of your target employees by building relationships |
Exploit | The process of Extracting information from targeted employees |
Identity theft | Identity theft occurs when someone steals your personal information to commit fraud. |
Ethical Hacking Cheatsheet
Ethical hacking includes authorized attempts to gain unauthorized access to computer systems, applications, or data. Ethical hacking requires replicating the strategies and behaviors of malicious attackers. This practice helps identify security vulnerabilities, So they can be fixed before malicious attackers can exploit them.