Understanding Social Engineering and How to Protect Yourself

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- https://www.kaspersky.com/home-security

Related information:
Kaspersky- What is social engineering https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-social-engineering

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