what are the different types of social engineering attacks?
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["Baiting. As its name implies, baiting attacks use a false promise to pique a victim's greed or curiosity. ... ", 'Scareware. Scareware involves victims being bombarded with false alarms and fictitious threats. ... ', 'Pretexting. ... ', 'Phishing. ... ', 'Spear phishing.']
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['Risk 1: Exposing the organization to malware and botnet attacks. ... ', 'Risk 2: Exposing the organization to DDoS attacks. ... ', 'Risk 3: Enabling employees to bypass security controls. ... ', 'Risk 4: Being the victim of information theft.']
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['White Hat Hackers. White Hat hackers are also known as Ethical Hackers. ... ', 'Black Hat Hackers. Black Hat hackers, also known as crackers, are those who hack in order to gain unauthorized access to a system and harm its operations or steal sensitive information. ... ', 'Grey Hat Hackers. ... ', 'Miscellaneous Hackers.']
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['Malware. ... ', 'Phishing. ... ', 'Spear Phishing. ... ', '“Man in the Middle” (MitM) attack. ... ', 'Trojans. ... ', 'Ransomware. ... ', 'Denial of Service attack or Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS). ... ', 'Attacks on IoT Devices.']
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Today I'll describe the 10 most common cyber attack types: Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack. Phishing and spear phishing attacks.
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['Obstructive. Perhaps the most deceitful approach to social responsibility is obstructive. ... ', 'Defensive. ... ', 'Accommodating. ... ', 'Proactive.']
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['Hacking. ... ', 'Data misuse and unauthorised transfer or copying. ... ', 'Copying and distributing copyrighted software, music and film. ... ', 'Email and chat room abuses. ... ', 'Pornography. ... ', 'Identity and financial abuses. ... ', 'Viruses.']
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['Malware.', 'Ransomware.', 'Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.', 'Spam and Phishing.', 'Corporate Account Takeover (CATO)', 'Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Cash Out.']
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["Ransomware Evolution. Ransomware is a type of malware in which the data on a victim's computer is locked, and payment is demanded before the ransomed data is unlocked. ... ", 'Blockchain Revolution. ... ', 'IoT Threats. ... ', 'AI Expansion. ... ', 'Serverless Apps Vulnerability.']
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Hacking refers to activities that seek to compromise digital devices, such as computers, smartphones, tablets, and even entire networks. ... But hackers can also use psychology to trick the user into clicking on a malicious attachment or providing personal data. These tactics are referred to as “social engineering.”
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Phishing. Phishing attacks are the most common type of attacks leveraging social engineering techniques. Attackers use emails, social media, instant messaging and SMS to trick victims into providing sensitive information or visiting malicious URLs in the attempt to compromise their systems.
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["Malware. Malicious software – 'malware' – infects devices without users realizing it's there. ... ", 'Drive-by downloads. ... ', 'Phishing. ... ', 'Brute-force attacks. ... ', 'SQL Injections. ... ', 'Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks. ... ', 'Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. ... ', 'Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)']
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['Critical infrastructure security: Critical infrastructure security consists of the cyber-physical systems that modern societies rely on. ... ', 'Application security: ... ', 'Network security: ... ', 'Cloud security: ... ', 'Internet of things (IoT) security.']
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Types of active attacks include: Denial of service (DoS) Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Session replay.
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['Computer Viruses. ... ', 'Trojans horse. ... ', 'Adware. ... ', 'Spyware. ... ', 'Worm. ... ', 'Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks. ... ', 'Phishing. ... ', 'SQL Injection.']
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There are several types of computer security threats such as Trojans, Virus, Adware, Malware, Rootkit, hackers and much more. Check some of the most harmful types of computer Security Threats.
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['Antivirus Solutions. Perhaps one of the most popular and well-recognized types of endpoint security, antivirus solutions still provide critical capabilities. ... ', 'URL Filtering. ... ', 'Application Control. ... ', 'Network Access Control. ... ', 'Browser Isolation. ... ', 'Endpoint Encryption. ... ', 'Secure Email Gateways. ... ', 'Sandboxing.']