Question

Identity Theft

ACCT 513

Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report

Respond to the following in a concise and complete manner:

1. The article mentions two scenarios that were most prevalent in pretexting attacks being employees who worked in finance or human resources.

If you were asked to predict another area where pretexting will be on the rise, what would it be?

Explain why you believe this is, or will become, a hot area for pretexting.

Answer 1

Pretexting is another form of social enginerring where attacker focus on creating a good pretext,or a fabricated scenerio,that they can use to try their victims ' personal information '. these attack commonly take the form of a scammer pretending to need certain information from their target in order to confirm their identity.

Pretexting is a attack to gain information which an opposite person does not want to share such as personal details, company's confidential data and so on. sometimes, the companies hire cybercriminals to test the organizations employees knowledge and loyalty using the pretexting attack.

The company hire some experts who can deal with pretexting attack to know about their employees loyalty. some employees share some personal information about the company to the ou tsiders to gain personal interest it is also known as internal trading, so they hire experts who can go through the organisation to protect the company from internal trading.

it is aloso practice in some other areas such as in small and large organisation which has huge number of employees. it is also practice in human resource areas which has a huge number of personal information of number of clients. The company practice pretexting attack in such areas to protect personal information and company data.