Network Security under the Background of Social Engineering
Yuanquan Shi · Journal of Huaihua University · 2013
As network evolves,social engineering attack has a rapidly rising even trend of abuse.It is of significance to study the threats of the attack on network security,because this attack breaks through the defense measures of system security by using human vulnerability not computer leaks.This paper discusses about the theoretical basis of social engineering and social engineering attack,describes the relation of social engineering and network security and the character and method of this attack,and then expounds the attack's process with psychological and behavioral attack.In order to develop the general system of network security for defending all kinds of technical and non-technical factor attacks,social engineering should integrate with honeypot system.That is a new idea pointed out in this article.