The Art of Human Hacking - And Why It Works?

Information technology has changed over the years, but there’s one thing that remained constant. It’s social engineering. Social engineering has a lot of definitions. Some people call it the art of human hacking, while others call it digital attack techniques.

Well, both of the definitions are correct. Social engineering is the manipulation of a human being through different mediums. It can be both online and offline. It all depends on how the attack is executed and how convincing the lie is.

Furthermore, social engineering is the most popular attack vector. There are social engineering toolkits available on the Internet. These toolkits can easily help a beginner to begin executing social engineering attacks. Over the course of 3 years (2013-2016), social engineering scams have stolen over $5 billion worldwide.

Not to mention that social engineering attacks have the highest percentage of being successful.

Why does Social Engineering works?

There are a lot of factors that determine why it is the most successful attack vector on the Internet. It is not restricted to a single country. In the United Kingdom, 76% of businesses have been victimized by social engineering attack specifically phishing.

Social engineering is the only attack method that does not require any knowledge of writing code. Unlike ...


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