{"id":1463,"date":"2020-10-08T09:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2023-12-19T03:01:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:01:32","slug":"social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/phishing.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is Social Engineering?<\/strong><br>Social engineering is a type of cyberattack that uses psychological manipulation to convince victims into&nbsp;<em>performing actions or disclosing information<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beware of Imposters!<\/strong><br>An attacker may pretend to be someone else, either by phone, in-person, or via email, in order to solicit financial or personal details, or to ask that you take some action, such as completing a financial transaction or providing remote access to a computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is common for attackers to impersonate tech support, charitable organizations, government agencies, banks\/financial institutions, even your friends\/family\/coworkers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, the &#8220;From:&#8221; in an email is just like a return address on a postcard and can be forged. Be wary of interactions from&nbsp;people you think you know&nbsp;asking for gift-cards, passwords, or other personal information.&nbsp; Also, be wary of any&nbsp;free offers, if it\u2019s too good to be true, it probably is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Unprecedented times&#8230;<\/strong><br>Fraudulent activity is up 600% since COVID-19!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">Phishing Icon made by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/simmonstechnology.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-juvthhd-otrjllizj-g\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smashicons<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/simmonstechnology.cmail20.com\/t\/r-l-juvthhd-otrjllizj-w\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.flaticon.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Social Engineering?Social engineering is a type of cyberattack that uses psychological manipulation to convince victims into&nbsp;performing actions or disclosing information. Beware of Imposters!An attacker may pretend to be someone else, either by phone, in-person, or via email, in order to solicit financial or personal details, or to ask that you take some action, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[369,37,38,39],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-369","tag-37","tag-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurityawarenessmonth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}