Social engineering Flashcards
What is the principle of security?
Confidentiality
integrity
availablitiy
What is a vulneability?
a weakness: software bugs, defaults configurations, weak passwords
What is a threat?
a event that violates the CIA
Examples: malware, phishing, hackers
What is a attack?
is a exploitation of a vulnerability
Examples: Network attack, Application attack
what is social engineering?
bad actors tricking authorized users
What is phishing?
this is a email based scam that get tricks the user
What are the different tpes of Phsing?
Vishing smishing spear phishing whaling spam spim (instant messaging)
What is vhishing?
This a scam done over the phone
What is smishing?
This is a sms text based scam
What is a spear phishing?
This is a specific company that is scammed
What is whaling?
This is a scam against someone in managment with a higher authority.
What is spam?
is flood of suspcious emails or spim which a flood of supscious text messages
What is pharming
copying a certain DNS and then getting users to go to the site and steal information
What is water hole attack?
This attack where a bad actor spoofs a website and steal credentials
What is typo squatting?
This where a bad actor would redirect people from mispelled websites to malicious site
