Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack

• Main Authors: Mohd Foozy, F, Ahmad, R., Abdollah, M. F., Yusof, R., Mas'ud, M. Z.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/191/1/MUiCET_2011_Cik_Feresa_binti_Mohd_Foozy-_by_Feresa.pdf; http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/191/

Social engineering is a type of attack that allows unauthorized access to a system to achieve specific objective. Commonly, the purpose is to obtain information for social engineers. Some successful social engineering attacks get victims’ information via human based retrieval approach, example techn...