Ismail, Nor Naematul Saadah and Fammy Rikzan, Fatin Izzati and Krishnan, Suren and Zaimy, Nur A’fyfah and Zolkipli, Mohamad Fadli (2023) A Review on Adapting Social Engineering Attack as One of the Penetration Testing Techniques. International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management, 5 (3). pp. 35-46. ISSN 23955252

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Abstract

In cyber security, there are plenty of threats and attacks used by the hackers to exploit vulnerabilities in any organization’s system or network. Social engineering attack is one of the threats that is accomplished through human interactions instead of using software or system breach. Social engineering, which is known to use psychological manipulation, usually tricks humans to get sensitive information by luring them into making security mistakes. This attack can make the companies face financial loss and lack of trust from the clients due to the crucial information data leakage to the attacker. Ignorance and lack of awareness about this social engineering is one of the reasons this attack occurs. Penetration testing has been studied to be the efficient defense towards this attack. In this paper, there are several techniques of penetration testing to be discussed towards social engineering. This discussion came up with solutions and ideas which can reduce the social engineering attacks

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Penetration testing, social engineering, pen-test techniques
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Divisions:	School of Computing
Depositing User:	Mr. Izhar Hj. Hashim
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2026 08:20
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2026 08:20
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/34394

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