Would this incident be an example of social engineering? You receive a phone call from the technical support department of a sof
tware maker alerting you to a bug in the company’s software, which you have purchased. The tech offers to walk you through the steps required to fix the software on your computer. 1. Social engineering2. Not social engineering
In computer security, social engineering refers to a technique where someone with a malicious intent tricks or manipulates people else to give up confidential information or perform an action that goes against their best interest.
In our case, this can be seen as a very clear case of social engineering. This is because the situation is extremely suspicious: it's extremely rare, for a software company to call a specific customers to alert them of bugs and offer assistance in order to "fix" said bug. The "tech" expert could mislead an unsuspecting user into revealing some confidential information or installing backdoor software disguised as part of the bug fixing process. This situation is not unlike pop-up ads that appear on some websites, alerting the user that a virus or a security flaw has been detected, and prompting the user to click a dodgy link that actually leads to a malicious website or downloads some equally malicious software.
It is wrong to check educational qualifications for a job candidate later as this defeats the reason for education and is a fault base for judging a candidate, Education qualification should be one of the basics for employment.
Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the type of corporation being mentioned is a joint-stock company. This is a business entity where all the share's of the company have been bought and are held solely by the shareholders. This allows the shareholders to transfer or sell their shares to others without affecting the companies existence.
