{"id":2442,"date":"2017-07-28T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T11:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:33:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:33:24","slug":"social-engineering-firewall-rules-for-your-brain-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/social-engineering-firewall-rules-for-your-brain-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Engineering: Firewall-Rules for your brain \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humans can be regarded as one of the biggest weaknesses for secure systems. Their interaction with technology and awareness for information security makes them usually the \u201cweak link\u201d for gaining access to enterprise networks and private information. From an attackers point of view the investment of using a human to hack a system is much cheaper than searching for 0-day exploits or unpatched vulnerabilities. That\u2019s why the art of human hacking, called Social Engineering<\/em>, has become an important threat factor for secure systems.<\/p>\n

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Social Engineering is the effort to get a victim to do something beneficial to the attacker such as getting victims to divulge passwords or credit card information. But how is this primarily accomplished? The answer to this question is through manipulation of the human element. To get a basic understanding on how Social Engineering works (at least from a theatrical view-point), we will have a look at the following YouTube clip from the movie Red Dragon<\/em> and analyze it with the help of Barnlund\u2019s communication model.<\/p>\n