What is Social Engineering?
Chris Hadnagy puts it this way, "Social Engineering is any act that influences a person to take an action that may or may not be in their best interest." (Social Engineering, The Science of Human Hacking).
Understanding how people end up providing information they shouldn't is important.
Without this understanding, you can't teach your kids what to watch out for, or why doing something that looks harmless is a bad idea.
Professional hacker ("Social Engineer") Christopher Hadnagy explains how we can protect ourselves from various attacks from con artists. Christopher Hadnagy, is the founder and CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC. Chris has over 16 years experience as a practitioner and researcher in the security field. His efforts in education and awareness have helped to expose social engineering as a top threat to security today.
Using safe resources I analyze a malicious email to so you can see how it progresses and how they are influencing you.
Here is another Malicious email asking for Bank account information and more.
I follow it through, showing how people freely give bad people their personal information.
Share this with friends and especially your kids.
Let's keep them safe.
Here are examples of what to avoid on Social Media..
The examples used are actually from social media and a LOT of people have fallen trap to them. Don't let your kids be a victim.
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