From the course: Cybersecurity Awareness: Phishing Attacks
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A review of the psychology behind social engineering attacks
From the course: Cybersecurity Awareness: Phishing Attacks
A review of the psychology behind social engineering attacks
- [Instructor] The human brain is an incredible thing. It processes so much information regularly. It allows us to breathe without even thinking about it. It communicates with our internal systems in a way that we don't even notice until something is off. It even has a built-in panic button that fires off and allows us to demonstrate certain skills or abilities we wouldn't notice otherwise. For example, the mom that lifted a car off of your child. As awesome as the human brain is, it's still imperfect. I'd actually argue to say that our brains can be a little lazy and sometimes by design too. Let me explain. We process so much information daily. That accumulates over our lifetime and just like a computer, our brains need to figure out how best to support us and our immediate needs many times without our active involvement. So the brain starts to lump things together for efficiency's sake. This tendency gives us a lot…
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