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Using a web browser find the article "Methods for Understanding and Reducing Social Engineering Attacks" on the SANS Institute website. A search engine should easily find the article.

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Read the article or choose another article on social engineering, read it, and answer the following questions:

Questions:

1. What are the three methods used in social engineering to gain access to information?

2. What are three examples of social engineering attacks from the first two methods in the previous question?

3. Why is social networking a social engineering threat?

4. How can an organization defend itself from social engineering attacks?

5. What is the SANS Institute, which authored this article?