In its August edition of Phish and Ships, Be Cyber Aware at Sea discusses the dangers of social engineering and the way it manipulates individuals into acquiring personal information that will be used for fraudulent purposes; otherwise known as hacking the human.
Recently, the Korean Register of Shipping stated that ‘social engineering’ means to secure access rights to systems, data, and buildings by exploiting human psychology instead of a technical hacking technique to steal into the system.
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