The first thing comes to our mind when we read social engineering is “there is no patch for human stupidity” or human is the weakest link in the security chain. This is a kind of attack which is done against the trust of the user. In this attack, first attacker wins the trust of the victim then collects all the information that is needed to execute one of the attacks we discussed above or any other attack. The only way to prevent from being a victim is trust no one, you never know when your boyfriend/girlfriend will hack your account. Jokes apart, do not disclose any information that has a possible significance with security to anyone. So these were some of the security-related challenges that we face everyday, but we have only covered the problems. Let’s move on to see what are the solutions.
