Flashcards
Social engineering
Cards in this deck (4)
- 1is a scamming practice in which malicious code is installed on a personal computer or server, misdirecting users to fraudulent Web sites without their knowledge or consent. Has been called "phishing without a lure."Pharming
- 2According to Microsoft's Safety & Security Center, can be summed up as: “A type of online identity theft. It uses email and fraudulent websites that are designed to steal your personal data or information such as credit card numbers, passwords, account data, or other information”.Phishing
- 3is a type of social engineering technique used to obtain information such as personal identification numbers (PINs), passwords and other confidential data by looking over the victim's shoulderShouldering
- 4To persuade someone in a clever or slightly dishonest way to allow you to do something or to give you something: Somehow they managed to blag their way in. There are often people heading my way so it's easy to blag a lift. Cheating & tricking.Blagging