By social engineering, we indicate the kind of content that contrives the visitors to do something minacious (dangerous). According to the experts practicing in the famous digital marketing company, “The menacing attacks may result in the following:
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Exposing Confidential information
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Downloading some kind of threatening software”
In case, your website is found to be having some kind of deceptive content (social engineering content), then the chrome browser shows the following warning:
Deceptive Site Ahead
Various social media marketing companies visit security issues reports, in case they are doubting that the particular content may come out as treacherous or the one which satisfies all the credentials of becoming social engineering content.
Social Engineering
To mislead the visitors to do something menacing or vicious is known as social engineering:
Social Engineering Attacks
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Phishing |
This artifice somehow convinces the user to reveal the personal information by falsely making them believe that they are from some bank or some government organization. The information may comprise of the following: Passwords Phone Numbers Credit Cards |
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Deceptive Content |
This trick allows the visitor to provide information by appearing as some kind of trusted entity. Example of the deceptive content Sometimes, it happens that one kind of warning keeps on getting shown on the browser which may be like: Your software is out of date, Install XYZ to optimize the system performance |
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The Appearance Of The Third Party Content |
In many of the cases, it happens that the particular treacherous person is making a fool of you by extracting the required information and the money by emerging as the one who is operating on the behalf of someone. |
FAQ’s
How can we protect ourselves from being tricked by social engineering practices?
Google safe browsing is accountable for protecting web users. It appears successful in this motive by warning the users not to visit this particular site or page.
When are web pages considered included in social engineering?
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When they are only pretending to be a trusted entity.
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When they are leading you to do something which you could only do if some trusted entity will trigger you to do so.
What is social engineering embedded content?
Social engineering is accountable for showing up the content that is embedded in some kind of benign website. If any content is found to be embedded in the social engineering content then it comes under the policy violation for the host page.
The violation of the safe browsing rules will still be found if a user experiences any of the following:
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Pop-Ups
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Pop-Unders
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Redirections
What should you do?
First of all, you should not post any content unless you are doubly sure that it does not contain any treacherous content or one which may or may not mislead the people. As discussed, you can get it checked on the security issues report.
Hiring a good digital marketing company is to save you from the risk of spoiling your reputation by emerging as the violator of the safe browsing regulations.