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Pretexting

Pretexting, known in the UK as blagging, is a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order to lure a victim into a vulnerable situation and to trick them into giving private information, specifically information that the victim would typically not give outside the context of the pretext. In its…

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Psychological manipulationInformation securityCybersecurityPhishingVishing
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Current education frameworks

Asian PacificFirewallsAntiviruses
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Examples

Hewlett PackardSocialbotsFacebookElon MuskTwitter
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Social aspect

TechnologyTrustworthiness
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Pretexting

Nodes31
Edges30
Triples46
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

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related to Recent examples · 13
Pretexting → CEO, Elon Musk, Facebook, Hewlett Packard, In, On, Subsequently, The, They, This, Twitter, Using, When
related to Pretexting in the timeline of social engineering · 7
Pretexting → After, As, Coined, FBI, For, In, Soon
related to Early pretexting (1970–1980s) · 6
Pretexting → Attackers, Operators, Switching, Teletypewriters, The, The October
related to Reverse social engineering · 6
Pretexting → Due, It, Once, Reverse, Then, Typically
related to Social aspect · 5
Pretexting → According, Attacks, Directly, In, There
related to Low perception of threat · 2
Pretexting → Despite, This

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social engineering information attacks attacker victim pretext attack used example reverse education frameworks one type order first trust technology attackers

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computersinstance ofexploits human vulnerabilities in order to breach entities0.80text
information technology.Social engineering has little literatureinstance ofexploits human vulnerabilities in order to breach entities0.80text
research done on it currentlyinstance ofexploits human vulnerabilities in order to breach entities0.80text
credit cardsinstance ofwhile the social engineering attack known as phishing relies on modern items0.80text
mainly occurs in the electronic spaceinstance ofwhile the social engineering attack known as phishing relies on modern items0.80text
pretexting wasinstance ofwhile the social engineering attack known as phishing relies on modern items0.80text
can be implemented without technology.Pretexting was one of the first examples of social engineeringinstance ofwhile the social engineering attack known as phishing relies on modern items0.80text
Pretextingrelated to Early pretexting (1970–1980s)The October0.60section
Pretextingrelated to Early pretexting (1970–1980s)Switching0.60section
Pretextingrelated to Early pretexting (1970–1980s)Operators0.60section
Pretextingrelated to Early pretexting (1970–1980s)Attackers0.60section
Pretextingrelated to Early pretexting (1970–1980s)Teletypewriters0.60section

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