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?