What is Social Engineering?

What is Social engineering? And importantly, how can you protect yourself from these types of attacks? Social engineering is a technique used to manipulate people to gain private information, access or even valuables. Social engineering attacks can be through a variety of sources such as email, text or in person. Watch this video to discover Kaspersky’s tips on identifying a social engineering attack and what to do. Video breakdown: 0:00 Has this happened to you? 0:30 What is Social engineering? 1:09 The three traits of a social engineering attack 1:13 #1 Heightened emotions 1:35 #2 Urgency 1;54 #3 Trust 2:19 Where Social engineering attacks happen 2:56 What to do if you think you are being attacked by social engineering Related products: Kaspersky Home Security- Related information: Kaspersky- What is social engineering #socialengineering #cybersecurity #datasafety