The art of human hacking is a quite intersting topic for the young generations to learn about the fact of social and digital engineering is very important so lets get started.
Nowadays social engineering can be imagined in security,goverment,education,military,psycology and every other applicant that you can imagine.
we see it being used by everyone and their brother now because it is not only the easiest attack vector—as it was seven years ago—but because it’s now also meriting the largest payloads for attackers.
The cost to set up an SE attack is low. The risk is even lower. And the potential payout is huge.
in 2017, more than 80% of all breaches had a social engineering element to them.
The IBM “2017 Cost of Data Breach Study” states that the average cost of a breach was 3.62 million US$. When the potential for a payout is that large, it’s certainly not hard to see why an attacker would want to use social engineering.
Giving you an old example of social engineering to explain you
in the book of Genesis, and it reportedly happened around 1800 BCE. Jacob wanted the blessing that was to be given to his older brother Esau. Knowing his father, Isaac, had failing eyesight and relied on other senses to know who he was speaking to, Jacob dressed in Esau’s clothing and prepared food like Esau would have prepared. Here’s the best part: Esau was known to be extraordinarily hairy, but Jacob wasn’t, so he fastened the skins of two young goats to his arms and the back of his neck. When Isaac reached out to touch Jacob, Isaac relied on his senses of smell, touch, and taste to tell him that he was with Esau rather than Jacob. According to the account in Genesis, Jacob’s social engineering attack worked!
I hope you will understand more about it in my next blog thankyou
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