20s-2550: L18 Social Engineering
Materials
You can use the L18 slides (pdf) to take notes. L18 annotated slides (pdf) from lecture have my drawings.
Please see piazza@439 for a link to the recorded video.
Summary
- Be familar with a few basic social engineering attacks
- Baiting, tailgating, phishing, ceo, advance fee, scareware, extortion, bespoke
- Understand the cognitive biases that lead to most social engineering attacks
- What are basic mitigations, both technical, and educational, to social engineering attacks?