Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack
Social engineering is a type of attack that allows unauthorized access to a system to achieve specific objective. Commonly, the purpose is to obtain information for social engineers. Some successful social engineering attacks get victims’ information via human based retrieval approach, example techn...
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| author | Mohd Foozy, F Ahmad, R. Abdollah, M. F. Yusof, R. Mas'ud, M. Z. |
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| description | Social engineering is a type of attack that allows unauthorized access to a system to achieve specific objective. Commonly, the purpose is to obtain information for social engineers. Some successful social engineering attacks get victims’ information via human based retrieval approach, example technique terms as dumpster diving or shoulder surfing attack to get access to password. Alternatively, victims’ information also can be stolen using technical-based method such as from pop-up windows, email or web sites to get the password or other sensitive information. This research performed a preliminary analysis on social engineering attack taxonomy that emphasized on types of technical-based social engineering attack. Results from the analysis become a guideline in proposing a new generic taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack (SEA). |
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| spelling | utem-1912015-05-28T02:17:12Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/191/ Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack Mohd Foozy, F Ahmad, R. Abdollah, M. F. Yusof, R. Mas'ud, M. Z. Q Science (General) Social engineering is a type of attack that allows unauthorized access to a system to achieve specific objective. Commonly, the purpose is to obtain information for social engineers. Some successful social engineering attacks get victims’ information via human based retrieval approach, example technique terms as dumpster diving or shoulder surfing attack to get access to password. Alternatively, victims’ information also can be stolen using technical-based method such as from pop-up windows, email or web sites to get the password or other sensitive information. This research performed a preliminary analysis on social engineering attack taxonomy that emphasized on types of technical-based social engineering attack. Results from the analysis become a guideline in proposing a new generic taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack (SEA). 2011-11 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/191/1/MUiCET_2011_Cik_Feresa_binti_Mohd_Foozy-_by_Feresa.pdf Mohd Foozy, F and Ahmad, R. and Abdollah, M. F. and Yusof, R. and Mas'ud, M. Z. (2011) Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack. In: Malaysian Technical Universities International Conference on Engineering & Technology (MUiCET 2011), 13-15 November 2011, UTHM, Batu Pahat, Johor. |
| spellingShingle | Q Science (General) Mohd Foozy, F Ahmad, R. Abdollah, M. F. Yusof, R. Mas'ud, M. Z. Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack |
| title | Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack |
| title_full | Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack |
| title_fullStr | Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack |
| title_full_unstemmed | Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack |
| title_short | Generic Taxonomy of Social Engineering Attack |
| title_sort | generic taxonomy of social engineering attack |
| topic | Q Science (General) |
| url | http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/191/ http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/191/1/MUiCET_2011_Cik_Feresa_binti_Mohd_Foozy-_by_Feresa.pdf |