Social engineering and social media

Abstract

The number of the threats,- which come from the cyber space- are increasing. These threats will increase more because of development of the infocommunication technologies. The motivation sources of these attacks are different. Hacktivist, cybercriminals, terrorists, public organizations, who use the cyberspace for spying or warfare. So the protection of the infocommunication network-which slowly pervade everything- is indispensable. However a system's physicaly and logical protection could be well developed, the human factor will be always a risk. The social engineering is an art, how attackers can hack a protected system by humanity. This paper presents those social engineering techniques which can be used on the social media sites. The work was created in commission of the National University of Public Service under the priority project KÖFOP-2.1.2-VEKOP-15-2016-00001 titled „Public Service Development Establishing Good Governance” in the Ludovika Workshop.