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Social Engineering: Defending Against Human-Based Deception

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Human-based deception is using direct interactions with key individuals in an organization to manipulate them into providing the desired information. The main type of attack makes use of impersonation. Many of the tactics listed below (e.g. trust, diffusion, and moral duty) are used with impersonation to gain information.


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    James Brady - 2010-04-12

    GOOD!