By Francesco Ficarola, Università La Sapienza, Rome Warning: picture ahead showing animal in distress If you are reading this, then chances are that you have heard of Social Engineering (SE) at least once in your life. Perhaps, right now, you are...
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By Christine Glaser, Communications and Marketing Manager, Restena Foundation, with the contribution of Jean-Paul Weber, Security Engineer, Restena Foundation Any company or institution may one day be faced with social engineering attacks. For example...
By Simona Venuti, security manager at the GARR-CERT ‘When it’s time to talk about social engineering it’s difficult for me to decide from where to start, because it is everywhere around us. The definition of social engineering is...
By Silvia Arezzini, systems engineer and project manager at INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics) “The problem of social engineering has always interested me because it shows the intertwining of technical and human aspects. Social...
By Bruno Vuillemin, Security Officer of the University of Fribourg Sometimes a very simple fraud can cause a great deal of trouble. Whenever you receive and read an email, the sender might not necessarily be the person sending the message! In fact, most...
Social engineering is the act of manipulating or tricking people into certain actions, such as giving out personal or financial information that can be used to commit fraud. It’s an act, but also an art; social engineers are very good at influencing...
