Tuesday – Cyber Tip: Social Engineering

Topic: Social Engineering

Tip: 📢Social engineering is a technique used by attackers to manipulate, influence, or deceive individuals into sharing confidential information or do things that can harm their computer systems. They use psychological manipulation to make people reveal passwords, click on phishing links, or download malware.

Here’s an infographic on how it works, and also how to combat social engineering:  

Infographic:

  1. how social engineering works
  2. combat social engineering

 Now please watch this awareness video to help enhance your ability to detect and combat social engineering:

Video: Social Engineering Scams & how to avoid them