What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering
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Arun Vishwanath
Unless we do something proactively, social engineering's impact is expected to keep getting worse as people's reliance on technology increases and as more of us are forced to work from home.
Contact tracing, superspreaders, flattening the curve — concepts that in the past were the domain of public health experts are now familiar to people the world over. These terms also help us understand another virus, one that is endemic to the virtual world: social engineering that comes in the form of spear-phishing, pretexting, and fake-news campaigns.
As quickly as the coronavirus began its spread, news reports cautioned users about social engineering attacks that tout...