Social Engineering:A Partial Technical attack
This paper suggests the crystal clear concept behind the social engineering attack. Basically social engineering is a non technical attack. But social engineering attack is an attack on human psychology to get the information, but using what?
Basically it is an attack on human psychology by using some technical skills or technology. Social engineering attack has many types like fake mail, telephonic cheat etc. which are impossible without any technical skills, so in this paper we suggest that , it is a partial technical attack and can be divided in human based and typical computer based social engineering attack.
Keywords: Social engineering, technical and non technical attack, computer-based and human-based social engineering,human psychology
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
P. S. Maan
Department of Information Technology DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar,india
Manish Sharma
Department of Information Technology DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar,India
P. S. Maan
Department of Information Technology DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar,india
Manish Sharma
Department of Information Technology DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar,India
