Social engineering

As any other trick, social engineering is successful only if the attacker is smarter than his victim. The most important are information and some knowledge about dangers and traps on the net. A lot of people don’t recognize mail from spam, more to recognize serious attempts to gain their identity and passwords. In my opinion, there should be some security tutorial for new users installing internet browser – some guide “How to avoid problems”.

Very dangerous is to Trojan horse or virus which activates pop-up window which requests retyping your username and password because of, for example” lost connection. The password could be even written by dots, so you can very easily reveal your personal data.