Tag Archive for: Social Engineering

You might start by asking “what is social engineering?”

Social Engineering is the art of manipulating, influencing, or deceiving you in order to gain control over your computer system. The hacker might use the phone, email, snail mail or direct contact to gain illegal access. Phishing, spear-phishing, and CEO Fraud are forms of social engineering.

That is from KnowBe4. There has been a recent uptick in social engineering attacks across campus, usually spreading through your MLC Google Account (Gmail).

You can download a nice Social Engineering Red Flags PDF to read, print, and share to give yourself some nice warning signs to look out for online (including email).

As always, if you ever have any questions about the legitimacy of any email or websites, please contact MLC Network Services before opening the email or viewing/downloading any attachments.