Social media

Billions of people have embraced social media so far. Using these platforms, social engineers can find a ton of information about most of their targets. Most targets will have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn accounts. The beauty of social media is that it encourages users to share personal details of their lives on the internet. Social media users are conveniently careless and end up giving out even sensitive pieces of information to the whole world without thinking about the consequences. It is clear from these statements that social media is doing nothing more than compounding the problem. It is creating a rich pool of information from where social engineers can fish out details about targets without arousing suspicion. ...

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