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5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks [with Examples]

SecureWorld News

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. KnowBe4 Security Awareness Advocate Erich Kron is an expert in this space. You could lose your data.'.

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New York: Cyberattack Is Twitter's Fault, Let's Increase Regulation

SecureWorld News

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. As a teenager, he discovered that social engineering was a trick that worked. "I You could lose your data.'.