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What is Spear Phishing and Social Engineering attack ?

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What is Spear Phishing and Social Engineering attack ?




Spear Phishing attacks are more narrowly targeted than regular phishing attacks.

These attacks pretend to be messages from trusted and recognizable sources,such as bank communications or your internal network resource to get the user to respond to a message or link

this takes them outside of their protected network making their computer susceptible to attack.




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Social Engineering attacks are aimed at the weakest part of any IT security system.These are attacks that attempt to trick the user into responding.
The attacks may play on the users sympathy or link to something of intrest (such as the Famous Anna Kournikovaattack in 2001).
These attacks can be straight forward as a simple phishing email or more complex involving computer based efforts as well as intraction in the real world.

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