Social Engineering, A strategy that relies on humans trusting nature, Tailgating, when an unauthorized person tries to sneak in behind someone as the enter a secured area, Vishing, Trying to gain someone's trust can access the secured data via the phone or voice channel, Spear Phising, a targeted phishing attack where you are trying to fool a specific target for there access to data and resources, pharming, a passive means of redirecting users from a legitimate website, water hole attack, Users visit an infected website and their systems become infected simply by visiting that website, Dumpster Diving, Digging through a target's trash, Whaling, targets are a “high-value” people such as CEOs and CFOs, Hoax, Victims are tricked into doing something harmful that they think is NOT harmful, Malware, Catch-all term for any malicious software, Virus, one type of malware that spreads without authorization, Worm, self-propagating, replicates itself over the network via methods such as file sharing, print sharing, and instant, ROOTKITS, The most challenging types of malware because they are specially designed to maintain persistence and root-level access on a system without being detected, LOGIC BOMB, deliberately installed usually by an authorized user, this malicious code sits dormant until a pre-programmed date then it delivers its malicious payload, Ransomware, Files are encrypted and the affected user must pay a ransom before the attacker (potentially) provides a decryption key

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