Passive Penetration Attacks Assignment

Assessment Overview

Passive penetration attacks with social engineering elements are a serious security threat to the corporate environment. Malicious attackers gather the information of target victims and email the victims with messages appearing as job seeking or professional events.

Upon satisfactory completion of this assessment, you will be able to conduct basic level research in IT security, analyse gathered information, and communicate your findings.

The Group Assignment is broken down into two parts

Part A: Group Presentation (16%)

Assessment Requirements and Instructions Part A: Group Presentation Your group will submit one set of slides in PowerPoint (ppt or .pptx) format. You are advised to adopt the following presentation structure:

1. Introduction & Objectives
   • Introduce each group member
   • Define the problem
   • Introduce the strategy/strategies used to engage the targeted victim (Mark Zuckerberg)
2. Analysis
   • Provide an analysis of the attacking environment
   • Detail why particular strategy/strategies were chosen
   • Describe how you would use the gathered information to draft 4 phishing messages and 4 non- phishing messages. including some examples
3. Implementation
   • Outline the process of the social engineering attack
4. Conclusion

Part B: Individual Submission

Individual group members must submit their own examples of phishing and non-phishing messages illustrating all four(4) social engineering strategies presented by the group.

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