[转载]Social Engineering Defense for Small Businesses

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There are many different methods a social engineer can employ to gain access to your company’s data. These are commonly divided into two categories; human based attacks and computer based attacks. Human based attacks rely on personal relationships while computer based attacks rely on technology to trick an individual into supplying the information.Among the various human based attacks are impersonation of various individuals either offering or needing help, dumpster diving and reverse social engineering. Most technological attacks today come from the Internet, but other methods exist as well.