Social Engineering
Social engineering is perhaps one of the oldest tricks in the book and one of the easiest ways to undermine security, yet it often requires little in the way of technical knowledge.
It is practically a confidence scam used to gain information that can be used in an attack or security breach. Like all cons, it takes many shapes and forms.
Common Forms of Social Engineering
Phishing is one of the most common ways of tricking users into providing information, and it usually involves emails designed to target specific businesses and look legitimate in the process. Phishers often go to great lengths to make their emails look and feel legit, making them difficult to detect. (more…)
According to a report for the I quarter of 2013, presented Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), there is a pronounced downward trend in the number of phishing sites. However, 
Spam has become so commonplace for all that many on it almost stopped paying attention.
Additional protection is designed to prevent conduct phishing attacks against users of the service.
Independent research firm NSS Labs has implemented testing four popular browsers (Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 21, Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and Mozilla Firefox 15) for resistance to phishing attacks and published a report of the test results.
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Fraudsters offer users to enter personal information to participate in the prize draw.
Phishing – a type of the Internet fraud, which purpose — to obtain identification data of users. This includes stealing passwords, credit card numbers, bank account numbers and other confidential
Brute force attacks – the so-called attack by the “brute force”. Typically, users use simple passwords, such as “123”, “admin”, etc. These and enjoy computer hackers, who with the help of special calculates the Trojans to penetrate the network password brute – based embedded in the program password dictionary or generate a random sequence of characters.