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Social Engineering

Social Engineering. Wilfridus Bambang Triadi Handaya Wilfridus.bambang@gmail.com. What is Social Engineering?. art of convincing people to reveal confidential information Uses Psychological Methods Exploits basic human nature Goals are the Same as Hacking.

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Social Engineering

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  1. Social Engineering WilfridusBambangTriadiHandaya Wilfridus.bambang@gmail.com

  2. What is Social Engineering? • art of convincing people to reveal confidential information • Uses Psychological Methods • Exploits basic human nature • Goals are the Same as Hacking

  3. Goals of Social Engineering Activity • attempt to gather information: • Sensitive information • Authorization details • Access details

  4. Types of Social Engineering • Human-based: Gathers information by interaction exploit trust, fear, and desire to help • Computer-Based: carried out with the help of computers

  5. Human Based Social EngineeringExamples • Eavesdropping • Shoulder Surfing

  6. Human Based Social EngineeringExamples (cont’d) • Pretexting • Dumpster Diving

  7. Human Based Social EngineeringExamples (cont’d) • Reverse Social Engineering, Samples movies

  8. Computer Based Social EngineeringExamples • Social Engineer Toolkit (SET)

  9. Countermeasures

  10. Conclusions • Social Engineering is a very real threat • Realistic prevention is difficults • Can be expensive • Easier than technical hacking • Hard to detect and track

  11. “You could spend a fortune purchasing technology and services...and your network infrastructure could still remain vulnerable to old-fashioned manipulation.” Kevin Mitnick

  12. References • http://www.social-engineer.org, accessed on April 18, 2011. 09.00 pm • CEH v6.1, course materials, ec-council • Carback, Rick. “Social Engineering”, 2005 • Bambang, Wilfridus. “Social Engineering, sebagaimetodepengumpulaninformasipadatahapseranganterhadapkeamanansisteminformasi”, 2007

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