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Anti-Social-Engineering Tips & Tricks
Be prepared for a Social Engineering attack. Find out if someone trying to social engineer you.
This can be someone that calls you on the phone and tries to pretend to be someone they are not to get information from you.
It can also be a real person coming to you with a fake badge again trying to get sensitive information from you.
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Anti-Social-Engineering Tips & Tricks
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Beware of people that call you on the phone and try to make you provide your personal information, passwords, and other sensitive information.
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Always be skeptical if someone calls you on the phone and tries to get your personal information, your passwords, and other sensitive data. Always be skeptical and never give out any information to strangers.
Tell the people who are trying to get information from you that you need to confirm their claims first and then double-check by calling trusted parties.
More to the point, if a person who's claiming to be from your bank calls you and tries to get information from you, never give out anything. You should then call the bank and ask them if they called you to get information from you soon afterwards.
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Never provide sensitive information via email.
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If someone tries to get you to give out personal data, passwords, and other sensitive information via your email, don't do so. Always call back to the real source and confirm if such a request is needed.
If it is required, send your information via traditional mail so you know where it is being sent to (that is, you're sending it to the correct, official address of the trusted company).
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Be skeptical of anyone that tries to get personal data, passwords, and other sensitive information from you.
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Always be skeptical if anyone tries to get information from you. Normally, it is very rare for a company to make you give out any information, so you should never do so if you haven't checked the source first and are absolutely confident about it. It is your right not to give out any information unless it is under extreme circumstances.
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If you need to track information about a person who tries to get information from you, then use the Penetrator or Portable Penetrator.
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The Penetrator and Portable Penetrator can quickly retrieve a large amount of information about a person. By using this feature, you can get an overview of whether or not the person who's trying to make you reveal intimate details about your life is a legitimate official of a trusted company or organization.
Moreover, you can check out other sources over the worldwide web as well to see if the stranger you've encountered is a legitimate representative of a business connected to you or not.
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