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This paper analyzes the social engineering technology and the social engineering tools that are used to test the human element with regard to its capabilities and limitations in the areas of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The analysis covers Social engineering Toolkits usefulness, cost, and implementation complexity and how its effectiveness can be enhanced.
Social engineering are all those activities that are done by a hacker to manipulate that human tendency to trust so as to gain unauthorized access to the valued information that are in the computer system. The IT specialist agrees that despite the secure networks and firewall being used, the security of the IT is based on the trust in the protection and authenticity . The easiest place for the attackers in the computer network is the human willingness to trust people based on what they have said. This makes any system very vulnerable to the attack of the criminals . While the IT specialist in the company can do all to protect the system form malicious attacks, it is up to the people using the system to ensure that the corporate network is secure
Increase of internet based social networking has created a revolution by enhancing social connectivity. However, the criminals and other actors on the internet that will ill motives have exploited this capability for nefarious purposes. There are two main tactics that are used by the criminals to exploit the people on the online social networks. The two methods will mostly be used together by the criminals. The first is that the computer savvy hackers may install unwanted software on the user’s computer or the phone so as to gain the personal information. This is mainly done by people who specialise i...
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Deception may be used in the event that they data cannot collected in any other way without the participants tainting by behaving unnaturally.
The power of manipulation is a very powerful tool and can easily be misused to benefit
Who’s Watching Whom? A Study of Interactive Technology and Surveillance is a comprehensive essay written by Lee Humphrys looking into the effects of using social networking sites. Humphreys takes on the task of looking into many different issues over the course of this one year study. Lee Humphreys’ research looks into whether users feel safe and secure while using the site, and what they find to be strengths and weaknesses of the network. He hopes to understand to whom the shared information is going to and if those sharing the information know their true audience. Finally, Lee Humphrys also wishes to see the percentages of who is contributing and who is just surveying or “stalking” on the network. With this, Mr. Humphreys also looks to see what kinds of contributions and what types of surveillance are being used with Dodgeball.
It has long been believed that information is power. Thus, people collecting personal information in ...
Ever since Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, millions of people have flocked to the website, resulting in “1.49 billion active users” (Facebook). Facebook allows users to not only reconnect with old friends, but also share whatever the user deems necessary. Facebook has many privacy settings that enable users to prevent anyone from seeing what they post. Even so, skeptics out in the world strongly attest that Facebook, and similar social media websites, aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. In the essay Why Asking for a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password Is Fair Game, Alfred Edmond Jr. addresses the false security Facebook provides to its users, and uses that notion to support his claim that bosses should
There are different types of computer crimes that many people become victims of every day. Computer crime is any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target ("Computer Crime: Chapter 2: What Are the Crimes? ", n.d.) - " Crimes such as data diddling, pump and dump, social engineering and spoofing are computer crimes. Even though these crimes are difficult due to privacy issues, the new technology has made investigations and prosecutions well organized and effective.
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Deceit is the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misleading the truth. Deception has always been a part of psychology and researchers have always determined that in the majority of cases the deceptions are harmless or minimal, yet they still exist. As a result of Mailgram’s experiment, deceptive research operations are now under harsh examination all across the discipline. It is obvious that Milgram’s intent was not to revol...
In his book Holtzman discusses how new technology threatens our privacy and how the law is incapable of protecting us. Holtzman has received a B.S. in Computer Science (326). He has worked as a security advisor in several organizations (326). By restating the title of the book in the introduction Holtzman claims that having no control over our personal information has resulted in the loss of privacy (xix). As Senator Evan Bayh mentioned in the foreword, the book examines the thin border “between protecting the United States and protecting our civil rights” (vi). Altogether, the main point of Privacy Lost is to deliver the message that “you have the right to control information about yourself” (xxv).
User Privacy is a sensitive topic at the moment. It is one of the most important factors a person should consider before they give their information away over the internet. Every click or selection you make online is being stored and permanently kept on record that includes anything you may have Googled, investigated or researched. Some people believe that user privacy is dead (Rambam 2011). More and more we are being encouraged to give away more information about ourselves online, and the greatest intrusion into our online activities comes from social networking sites. The lack of user privacy on social networking sites has led to dramatic changes in people’s lives such as targeting by the media and marketing researchers, the buying and selling of user information and other unethical forms of privacy invasion. Online activity is increasingly being used as e...
In a world of Facebook and LinkedIn and YouTube and OKCupid and Google and IPhones and Ipads and Kindles and all the other hundreds of sites and devices designed to garner personal information, data-mine your information, to better advertise, sell, inform, and connect you with the people or the places that you want to experience. The wonderful world of the Internet helps connect millions of people with millions of other people in milliseconds all day, every day. All the swapping and sharing of information create a world of transparency, deception, fraud, and identity confusion. Avatars, aliases, and profiles are the ways most people advertise their goods and services and themselves. With this consideration an erosion of privacy has changed our culture in ways that some predicted years ago and some that are new to our era. This paper will explore some primary regarding how technology causes the changes in privacy and what are the effects brought on by these changes.
Some examples of social engineering include phishing, spear phishing, and hoaxes. Phishing is where a victim receives messages that may or may not look real from actual business places. These messages ask victims to authenticate and give up sensitive information. Most people who fall for these tactics believed that the website or message was real. Spear Phishing targets a specific victim. Hoaxes are just ways to make the victim feel dumb that they fell for the trap. Lastly, we have spam, which is unsolicited commercial emails. Now a days filters have blocked a good amount of these emails because they are just annoying to deal with but spam has become the common transport for viruses, worms, trojans, and many other forms of
Social engineering is a non-technical form of intrusion that uses deception to gain your trust and trick you into providing personal information that you usually would not give out freely. (Rouse, 2006). Social engineering is one of the biggest techniques used in identity theft. Computer technology has radically changed the world and how society communicate with each other. When computer technology was in its infancy, business companies were the only member of society that had to be concerned about social engineering attacks. With the arrival of mobile and personal computing for nearly everyone, securing personal data has become an issue for everyone, not just business organizations. If you’re personal information is not protected, the consequences can be catastrophic. Today, there are spammers, hackers, virus developers, and identity thieves that poses a real risk to your privacy and even more importantly, your finances. (Williams & Sawyer, 2013).
The advantages of technology and the internet have led more criminals to use cyberspace to commit crimes. The threat of cybercrime is increasing as globalization continues to spread across the world. While the impact of globalization has led to amazing, new discoveries throughout the world, Internet connectivity has also made cybercrime easier. America and the rest of the world have become more reliant on technology and use it in more aspects of their lives, technology-users make themselves more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Globalization and the growing use of computers in the world have given people a motive to learn more about computing and become more knowledgeable as programmers. As these people learn more, there is a risk that they will use their new intelligence to commit cybercrimes.