Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Week 6 / Social Engineering in Social Networks

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Blog about a good case of social engineering.

I don´t have so many experience with social engineering. But sometimes i receive email with such attempts: "your email address won... click here!" Attempts like this are quite funny, because most of them comes from abroad. They are using google translator and because of it, it´s quite clear. It´s hard to describe the grammar mistakes caused by automatic translation, but most of them are really funny (problems with cases, gender, declination... and other difficulties in Czech language).

may be even more funny are attempts which does not use the translator, like this one:

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So really dangerous could be in Czech republic just attempts originated in Czech republic like fictive gathering... or attempts translated by real interpreter.


Formulate some measures which can reduce the effectiveness of social engineering attempts


One big security hole is warez programs. It is possible to solve it by wide spreading the open source, shareware, freeware...programs. May be even bigger problem and security hole then warez are Windows. So the best way how to reduce danger of malware and spyware are wide spreading Open source OS, ...which are defend by open source community.

And how to reduce social engineering focused on naive people? Just strengthen critical thinking, there is no other way.

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