Social Engineering: What is Smishing?
Smishing is a social engineering attack using phishing techniques, but sent by text message instead of email. The name is a combination of SMS and phishing. In this post, you’ll...
Author: M Salman Nadeem
Social engineering: Quid Pro Quo attacks
Quid pro quo is a kind of social engineering attack where a hacker promises a profit in exchange for information that can later be used to steal money, data, or...
Social Engineering: What is Tailgating?
What is tailgating? Tailgating is a physical Social Engineering attack where someone seeks entry to a restricted area where they are not allowed to be. A definition of tailgating in...
Social Engineering: What is baiting?
What is baiting? A “lucky winner” gets a free digital audio player. In fact, this offer compromises any computer it is plugged to – No so lucky huh !! This...
Social Engineering: What is Phishing?
Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) is a kind of identity theft that is growing in popularity amongst hackers. By using fraudulent websites and false emails, fake phone calls, and whatnot – perpetrators attempt...
Social Engineering: What is Pretexting ?
Pretexting attack is a specific kind of social engineering focused on creating a good pretext, or a fabricated scenario, that scammers can use to trick their victim into giving up...
Email Headers: How to read and use message headers
This blogpost will explain how to read and understand the email header which travels with every email. It contains details about the sender, taken route and the receiver. Use this...
Common threats to online privacy and digital security
In this blogpost, we will look at the most common threats to online privacy and digital security. You will increase your awareness of common threats, but also learn tips on...
POP3 vs IMAP vs Exchange ActiveSync. What’s the difference?
In this blogpost, we compare POP3 vs IMAP vs Exchange ActiveSync. We will see how these protocols work. What are their pros and cons? We will conclude by giving tips...
OpenPGP, S/MIME, Secure Message Escrow: Which E2E encryption is best?
From SMTP to OpenPGP, S/MIME and Secure Message Escrow Emails have been the epicenter of online communication for decades now. Unfortunately the underlying protocol called SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol),...