Chapter 1 - Social Engineering

What is social engineering?

Now that you understand what phishing is, we need to understand what is Social Engineering? In simple terms, it is what malicious actors use to trick end users into performing certain tasks through pretending to be someone else and sometimes gaining some information on their victim to then leverage with their attack. The following video will go more into what Social Engineering is.

Cited: YouTube. (2017). What is Social Engineering? YouTube. Retrieved March 17, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo1urF6S4u0.