Title: What is a Social Engineering Attack? Social Hacking Techniques and Prevention Tips
Headings: Social Engineering: What Is It? Types of Social Engineering Attacks and How to Protect Yourself from Them
Social Engineering: What Is It? Types of Social Engineering Attacks and How to Protect Yourself from Them
What is social engineering?
Types of social engineering attacks
Phishing
Spear phishing
Whaling
Vishing
Baiting
Quid pro quo
Pretexting
Tailgating
Scareware
5 ways to protect yourself from social engineering attacks
1. Be a skeptic. ALWAYS
2. Educate yourself and your staff
3. Update, update, update
4. Prioritize
5. Keep your professional and private accounts safe
Conclusion

Content: As it’s quite frequent that we get calls from our bank it’s no wonder attackers have used this to their advantage. For more details on phishing, check out our blog post which also examines this type of cyber attack. Baiting
In movies we’ve often seen that bit of comedy with someone finding a dollar bill on the floor, then trying to reach for it with the bill constantly getting yanked farther and farther away. This eventually leads the unwitting soul face-to-face with the pranksters who then laugh at such susceptibility. Well, the digital world also has its own version of baiting. Baiting involves a digital or physical object that is alluring to its target, and will either ask for their credentials or inject malware into their system. When it comes to physical bait, we often see attacks using USB flash drives that are left ‘laying around’ for a curious individual to pick up and insert into their machine. This infected USB drive will then inject malicious software into the victim’s machine and allow attackers access to it. With digital bait, we often see a download link to popular music, movies or even sought-after software that is actually a malicious link in disguise, one that will install malware in the victim’s computer. Quid pro quo
If you saw the movie Silence of the Lambs or know a little Latin, you’ve heard the phrase “Quid pro quo.”