Social Engineering Attack on a Help Desk Support
Information Security Management Course Work
Please read "Today's Attacks and Defenses" doc first, linked in the attachment.
Case Project 2-3: Your Social Engineering Attack
Today’s Attacks and Defenses at the beginning of this chapter illustrated how a security researcher could manipulate a help desk support technician into compromising security.
1. If you were to create your own social engineering attack, what would it be? Using your place of employment or school, first determine exactly what your goal would be in the attack, and then craft a detailed description of how you would carry out the attack using only social engineering to achieve your goal. You might want to search the Internet for examples of previously successful attacks that used social engineering. [ Background :You as a business major student, did intern, not have full time job]
2. Why do you think your attack would be successful?
3. Who would be involved?
4. What would be the problems in achieving your goal?
5. Why?
Write a one-page paper on your research.
Do your own work and make sure you answer all the questions.
It will submit on the Turnitin.
Submission will be sent to Turnitin to be electronically reviewed for plagiarism.
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Social Engineering Attack on a Help Desk Support
The nature and goal of the social engineering attack
The main goal of the attack would be to get the names, student registration numbers, mobile phone numbers, and place of residence of most students in the university through the phishing technique. I would draft a questionnaire with a dummy logo resembling a trusted organization requesting the above details from students to qualify for donations in monetary form to cushion them from the coronavirus pandemic.
Why do you think the attack will be successful?
The attack has a high possibility of succeeding since it will convince the dean of students to accept the forms so that willing students can pick them from the office, fill and hand over immediately. Therefore, students will build confidence and give accurate data. Additionally, coronavirus is a global pandemic that led to a massive loss of jobs (Fetzer et al., 2020). As a result, many people are likely to...
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