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.