Comments on: The Art of Social Engineering http://www.gfi.com/blog/art-social-engineering/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=art-social-engineering Brought to you by GFI Software Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:13:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Perry B. http://www.gfi.com/blog/art-social-engineering/comment-page-1/#comment-29879 Perry B. Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:30:23 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=3463#comment-29879 I never knew that social engineering can be a form of art. And why not? With the increasing popularity of the social media and the massive growth of the World Wide Web, social engineering in its entirety is a type of human creativity and wild imagination.

At present, it’s all about email, SMS, and IM spams, online scams, viruses, malwares, phishing attacks, link baits, etc. In the near future, just like all types of art, social engineering will evolve into something else.

]]> By: Sarah Martin http://www.gfi.com/blog/art-social-engineering/comment-page-1/#comment-29810 Sarah Martin Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:08:16 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=3463#comment-29810 If the email was from the IT department (and this was explicitly stated in the email), this bears a very high level of trust and probably this is the reason why so many of you clicked it. Of course, the fact that it originated from the IT department isn’t a guarantee it is clean because let’s say the IT department might have got hacked but still this isn’t a random email. Or did I get it wrong? Did the IT guys sent a random-looking email on purpose?

]]> By: Alicia Mirin http://www.gfi.com/blog/art-social-engineering/comment-page-1/#comment-29732 Alicia Mirin Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:11:01 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=3463#comment-29732 The policy I always live by is if I didn’t ask to be sent certain kinds of information or I don’t recognize the sender, I don’t open the emails. If somebody wants to get in touch with me about something and they know me well enough to do that, they can call me on the telephone or send something through the post.

]]> By: Richard Mensa http://www.gfi.com/blog/art-social-engineering/comment-page-1/#comment-29723 Richard Mensa Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:35:49 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=3463#comment-29723 Arming yourself with the right information and knowledge will protect you against all types of bad things the Internet has to and will offer. Take for instance spam. If we all know how to distinguish it, then it would be dead by now. I’m not just talking about email spams. Social media, IM, and SMS spams could also be minimized (if not completely eradicated) if we all “know our enemy”.

We should also not forget the power of crowd sourcing. This is one art of social engineering one could never live without.

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