Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Cyber Security Dumpster Diving Stranded Traveller Baiting

Social Engineering is a vast topic due to technology upgradation, how much ever we can do good thing same as evil things are done by attackers.

We are going to most important topic of social engineering.


Dumpster Diving:

  • Attacker will search for the trashed things of victim.
  • Attacker will try to get information in discarded hard drive.
  • Attacker will search physically discarded document and search in recycle bin to get a valuable information.
How To Protect From Dumpster Driving:
  • By crashing and destroying the storage devices.
  • And shredding the important paper documents using shredder
Stranded Traveller:
  • Attacker will ask like a friend to a victim that that he needs 'help' by sending attachments by Phishing
  • 99 out of 100 victim will get scam mails.
How to protect you from Stranded Traveller:
  • Need to aware of fraudsters email format and how they interact. 
  • Always need to check key words deadlines, urgent, help.
Biating:
  • Biating is the technique used by attackers, they will use Malware infected physical devices like USB device by attackers eg: flash drive, CD driver.
  • Sometimes flash drive has been gift from attacker for participating in survey
How to protect you from Baiting:

Organization employees need to be trained in social engineering with these types of attacks.


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