Social Engineering attacks and their types: Social engineering attacks are used to gain access to the system and carry out actions that reveal confidential/secret information of the user. It makes the user break the security procedures and tricks to gain access to the system. There are different types of social engineering attacks such as- Phishing – Attackers create a similar fake website and acquire personal and bank details through this. He targets customers through email and other means. Spear phishing – Similar attack like phishing but the target is narrow towards a specific group. Vishing – Attack through phone as a medium Pretexting – Based on a scripted scenario, used to extract PII. The attacker resembles himself as a known person. Baiting – Attacks happen through download links, infected USB’s etc. Denial of Service Attack vs Distributed Denial of Service Attack: S.no DOS DDOS 1 In DOS, the attacker uses a single computer and internet connection to flood the target res...
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