Social Engineering Cyber Attack: How to prevent it?

HIGHLIGHTS: In our previous section, we learned about Social Engineering techniques and here we will discuss about how can we protect ourselves from such attacks.

As we know, Social Engineering is an art of manipulating human's psychological behavior to grab confidential information to gain access to their Bank Account or for some other financial frauds. Now, I will tell you how we can protect ourselves from these kind of attacks.

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Tips to Protect yourself

1. Don't Download: If you don't know the sender personally and the sender asks you to download a specific file, don't do it. First, try to figure out the details about the sender. If you find it genuine, then you can proceed.
   
2. Keep Patient: Mostly, attackers works on "Acts first and think later" policy. They communicate you in some urgent manner or in like some kind of emergency: never let their urgency influence your careful review.
   
3. Don't be fool of Foreign Offers: If you receive an email from a Foreign Lottery, request to transfer funds from other country or money from a unknown person, it is guaranteed to be a fraud.
   
4. Be aware while working on Searching Engines: There are several cases where person search for contact details of an organization through Search Engine i.e Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. Always use your mind while using such details. Some search pages may be Duplicated by phishers and they can grab your confidential information by pretending from that company.
   
5. Banks never ask for your financial information: Keep in mind that no Bank or Financial institution never asks for your Banking details such as Credit/Debit Card number, ATM PIN, Net Banking passwords etc. These are highly confidential information and you should never share it with anyone.
   
6. Never install any software, when an unknown caller force you to install:  Sometimes, attackers call you to Un-Block your Credit Cards or for increasing limits or to update KYC. To do so, they insists you to install a software in your device. Such software may be TeamViewer, AnyDest, AmmyAdmin or other remote login software. When you install and share the details of these software, the attacker gets control over your device and can do anything that you do normally with your device. So, keep in mind to never install anything by saying someone unknown.

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