Recording devices
It might raise eyebrows to learn how recording devices can potentially be used in any social engineering attack. There are two answers to this, the first one is proof and the other one is self-evaluation and development. As per proof, a social engineering attack is not necessarily done for malicious purposes, sometimes it is paid for by an organization to help it find the vulnerabilities its employees have. Many organizations are paying penetration testers to try to social engineer their employees just to see how the employees react in some situations.
Employees will deny that they have been duped and that they therefore pose a threat to the organization. They dislike the embarrassment and any potential consequences that ...
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