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    Social Engineering

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    SOCIAL ENGINEERING INTRODUCTION Social Engineering is using non-technical means to gain unauthorized access to information or system. Normally a hackers would use exploit a systems vulnerabilities and run scripts to gain access. When hackers deploy social engineering they exploit human nature. Social Engineering is represented by building trust relationships with people who work in the inside of the organization to gain access or who are privilege to sensitive

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    Largo Books

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    Largo Books’ customers fell victim to a phishing scheme or attack. Phishers are entities who take personal information by sending spam or through other dishonest methods for some financial gain (ICS-CERT, n.d.). A phishing scheme or attack would be the methods used to obtain that personal information. For example, there have been incidences of Bank of America customers receiving emails stating that they were receiving a Bank of America alert and that their on-line [sic] banking was bloked [sic]

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    The first step in an attack is sending the target a fake email. Attackers often insinuate a sense of urgency to their targets. For instance, an email might indicate that one’s personal data has been compromised and the only way to save the situation is through logging into an attached link. Hackers have also been known to take advantage of people’s greedy nature to lure them into giving out personal information. The hacker may ask the target to participate in a survey that pays (Wong, 2012). The

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    Introduction Phishing has become one of the most successful methods cyber attackers use for hacking an organization. It has become effective because it targets the weakest link, people. Cyber attackers understand that the easiest way to hack into an organization, infecting someone’s computer or gain someone’s password is to simply ask. Phishing works by sending an email to millions of people pretending to be something they know or trust, such as a well-known bank, online store, or government organization

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    Anti-phishing I-voting system using Visual Cryptography (VC) aims at providing a facility to cast vote for critical and confidential internal corporate decisions. The user or the employee is allowed to cast his or her vote from any remote place. The election is held in full confidentiality where the user is allowed to vote only if he logs into the system by entering the correct password. The password is generated by merging two shares using VC scheme. Before the election administrator sends share

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    One of the fastest growing industries in the world is information technology (IT). From waiting 2 minutes for your page to open; to waiting 5 seconds for your page to open with everything loaded. While there is a bunch of good things the internet has provided, there is also a bunch of cyber security threats out there. Everyone is prone to cyber-attack as long as you have an electronic device hooked up to the internet. Organization and businesses now rely on the internet for transactions, storing

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    and making sure that technology doesn’t impact your life in a negative way severely. It also includes utilization of information securely. Another aspect of electronic safety is socializing with others safely. Some dangers of the Internet include phishing, spam, hacking, viruses, interaction with strangers, etc. Cyber Bullying Cyber bullying is the use of technology to intentionally spread rumors or inappropriate content to harass or harm someone in an aggressive manner. A Cyber bully can be someone

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    Internet Fraud: An Overview of Classifications, Government Actions, and Consumer Protection December 14, 2006 Internet Fraud: An Overview of Classifications, Governmental Actions, and Consumer Protection Internet fraud is an increasing threat to our technological society, which thrives on the advances and benefits of the Internet and e-commerce. With the increased growth and dependence of the Internet, creative individuals have found ways of conveying fraudulent schemes as legitimate goods

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    The first step is to establish an information release policy that can help baseline intent for other policies, procedures and training for the company. In a nutshell, employees, staff and contractors should make sure they can identify the person they are releasing company information to and verify they have a legitimate business need for that information before releasing it (Kee, 2008). From this policy common procedures all staff, employees, and contractors can be developed, trained and expected

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    to data leakages are user’s susceptibility to falling victim to phishing attacks which then introduce malware to a system. According to APWG’s report, “’Business email compromise’ (or BEC) scams became a major problem in 2015” and sites associated with phishing have risen to as high as 88,976 as of August 2015.[1] In addition, in a survey of hundreds of information security professionals, 85% reported being the victim of a phishing attack, where emails personalized with first names, or last names

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