L12: Social Engineering

Materials

Use the raw slides (pdf) before lecture to take notes, and refer to the annotated slides after lecture.

Summary

  • We begin a new topic, social engineering attacks.
  • These attacks rely on human vulnerabilities to break security, and thus are highly effective attacks which are difficult to defend against.
  • In this part, we cover historical attacks and attack patterns.
  • In the next lecture, we will explore one major source of these attacks: cognitive bias.