Lesson 3 - Social Engineering

Sending emails in an attempt to gain money or information from people due to a made up reason

• Blagging

• Phishing

• Social Engineering

• Virus

You get a phone call from someone pretending to be from microsoft, they ask for your log in details and password

• Phishing

• Blagging

• Brute Force

• Hacking

A message has appeared on your screen asking you to pay money to an account otherwise your files will be deleted

• Blagging

• Ransomware

• Trojan

• Hacking

One of your workers has accidentally deleted some system files

• Hacking

• Trojan

• Human Error

• Blagging

Making up a scenario to try and get information or money from someone

• Phishing

• Blagging

• DDoS

• Social Engineering

Using someone's social media to either gather information or try to contact them

• Blagging

• Social Engineering

• Hacking

• Espionage

Which of the following most closely matches the definition of 'Blagging'?

• Sending an e-mail to a user pretending to be someone else

• Hacking a person's computer

• Tricking a person into revealing some personal information

• Observing a legitimate user entering a password

• Setting up a fake website that looks like an official website

Which two of the following e-mail addresses would you rate as trust users from?

• @gmail.com

• @trafford.gov.uk

• @oxfam.charity.org

• @stretfordgrammar.com

What is the term for making a phone call or e-mail that appear to be from somebody else instead of the real sender?

• Hoaxing

• Spoofing

• Blagging

• Pancaking

• Defenestrating

Which of the following could increase the chances of blagging being successful?

• Making the victim feel sorry for you

• Complementing the victim

• Ignoring the victim

• Claiming to be an authority figure

• Offering the victim a reward for 'helping'