{"id":44487,"date":"2017-04-13T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44487"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:38:28","slug":"cyber-security-campaign-targets-social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/04\/cyber-security-campaign-targets-social-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber security campaign targets social engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can happen by phone or online, often in the blink of an eye. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social engineering is the latest threat to online security, compromising your personal information as impersonators pretend to be someone you would likely trust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the art of gaining access to buildings, systems or information by exploiting human psychology, rather than breaking in or using technical hacking techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock IT Services has launched a new cyber security campaign to inform the community of how social engineering happens and what you can do to protect your information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some tips from ITS include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t give away any of your sensitive information until you have verified the identity of the person<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoid social engineering schemes by only giving information to people who really have a need for the information<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, visit the campaign website at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/security\/social-engineering\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/brocku.ca\/information-technology\/security\/social-engineering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can happen by phone or online, often in the blink of an eye. Social engineering is the latest threat to online security, compromising your personal information as impersonators pretend to be someone you would likely trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}