TY - GEN
T1 - Social engineering for security attacks
AU - Nelson, Jennifer
AU - Lin, X.
AU - Chen, C.
AU - Iglesias, J.
AU - Li, J. J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM. ISBN
PY - 2016/8/15
Y1 - 2016/8/15
N2 - Social Engineering is a kind of advance persistent threat (APT) that gains private and sensitive information through social networks or other types of communication. The attackers can use social engineering to obtain access into social network accounts and stays there undetected for a long period of time. The purpose of the attack is to steal sensitive data and spread false information rather than to cause direct damage. Such targets can include Facebook accounts of government agencies, corporations, schools or high-profile users. We propose to use IDS, Intrusion Detection System, to battle such attacks. What the social engineering does is try to gain easy access, so that the attacks can be repeated and ongoing. The focus of this study is to find out how this type of attacks are carried out so that they can properly detected by IDS in future research.
AB - Social Engineering is a kind of advance persistent threat (APT) that gains private and sensitive information through social networks or other types of communication. The attackers can use social engineering to obtain access into social network accounts and stays there undetected for a long period of time. The purpose of the attack is to steal sensitive data and spread false information rather than to cause direct damage. Such targets can include Facebook accounts of government agencies, corporations, schools or high-profile users. We propose to use IDS, Intrusion Detection System, to battle such attacks. What the social engineering does is try to gain easy access, so that the attacks can be repeated and ongoing. The focus of this study is to find out how this type of attacks are carried out so that they can properly detected by IDS in future research.
KW - Advance persistent threat (APT)
KW - Social engineering
KW - Social network security
KW - Spear-phishing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054159736&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2955129.2955158
DO - 10.1145/2955129.2955158
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054159736
SN - 9781450341295
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference, SocialInformatics 2016, Data Science 2016, MISNC, SI, DS 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference, MISNC 2016, 5th ASE International Conference on Social Informatics, SocialInformatics 2016 and 7th ASE International Conference on Data Science, DS 2016
Y2 - 15 August 2016 through 17 August 2016
ER -