Social engineering is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to buildings, systems, or data. Train yourself to spot the signs.

Specific examples of Scattered Spider’s social engineering tactics include “impersonating employees or contractors to deceive IT help desks into granting access,” or “convincing help desk services to ...

Pretexting is a social engineering attack that employs a fabricated scenario and character impersonation to win trust and gain access to data and accounts under false pretexts.

The following are five examples of the psychological tactics at the heart of social engineering attacks that I've found most alarming, along with some of my best practices for addressing them.

Why is this course relevant now? This course helps bridge the gap between engineering and social sciences by bringing concepts from human rights and social justice to engineering students.

But if you get an email from what looks like [a bank]? That could be different.” It’s also getting harder and harder to differentiate social engineering attacks from legitimate interactions.