Baiting is another sibling to phishing. Whereas phishing creates urgency and fear to drive actions baiting uses…well…bait. A baiter entices the target to give information or visit a poisoned website by offering something of value to the target. It might be free music or movie downloads. It might be an extended trial license of an […]
Definition of the Day: PiggybackingPiggybacking is a social engineering attack type that gives someone without proper access the ability to gain access to a restricted area, usually by physically following an employee. The most common incarnation of this attack occurs when the would-be hacker impersonates a delivery driver trying to deliver a package to an office building. The fake […]
The 14 Most Common Types of TrojansThe original Trojan was, indeed, a mythological wooden horse that turned out to be something entirely different than the gift from the gods the mythic Trojans thought it to be. In the realm of cyber security the term Trojan denotes a very specific type of malware with specific boundaries. Strictly speaking, Trojans are defined as […]
