How to prevent becoming a victim of social engineering.
To prevent social engineering assaults, it's important to understand that they are aimed to take advantage of people's inherent curiosity, respect for authority, and desire to assist others. Detecting social engineering assaults may be done by following a few simple steps...
Make sure to verify the origin of the information.
Consider the source of the message before taking it at its value. What if you find a USB stick on your desk and have no idea what it is? You get an unexpected phone call telling you that you've inherited $5 million? Your CEO sends you an email requesting a slew of personal data on each of your employees? We should take all of them as suspicious. It's not difficult to verify the source. Take a look at the email's header, for example, and compare it to other genuin...