Summary: Social Engineering For Security Attacks

According to, “Social Engineering for Security Attacks”, social engineering is a kind of advanced persistent threat that gains private and sensitive information through social networks or other types of communication (Nelson, 2016). The goal of social engineering is to stay inside of a social media account while undetected for a long period to steal private data (Nelson, 2016). Some targets of social engineering are government agencies, corporations, schools or high- profile users (Nelson, 2016). This type of threat has become increansingly popular in recent years as well as other threats to cybersecurity. Attackers are becoming more sophisticated and persistent, and are focusing on small attacks and high profile organizations.