Social Engineering

Social Engineering

  01:44    BackBenchers World

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This is a technique where we use brain rather than tools. We obtain critical information from victim’s ignorance or lack of knowledge.

How a password should be??

A password must be a combination of small letters, block letters, numbers and symbols with a minimum of 12 characters. Most of the time one set his passwords related to his personal life like flowers, actor/actress names, mobile numbers, date of birth, pet name, mother’s or father’s name, lover’s name or common words like 123456 etc.

If your passwords are in this category then it’s very easy to compromise your account within a short time interval. So never set password related to your personal life and make sure to categorise your password into five types.

• Confidential Password
• Financial Password
• Useless Password
• Average Password
• Normal Password

Confidential Password:

Is it required for everyone to know what you are chatting at midnights with your personals??? If your answer is “NO” then set confidential passwords to those specific websites like Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo etc. And don’t use those confidential passwords anywhere else.

Financial Password:

Set a very strong password for websites where you do financial transactions and never use that password anywhere else.

Useless, Normal, Average Password:

Based upon the priority of the site set useless, normal, average passwords.

Wrong is always right:

Never set a correct answer for your recovery questions. Always set a wrong answer for it and don’t forget what you set.