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1: With today's evolving technology social engineering attacks are not only becoming more common, but they're also increasingly sophisticated. Hackers are devising clever methods for fooling employees and individuals into handing over valuable information. That is why businesses must use caution and need to stay two steps ahead of cyber criminals. I would say most of the time social engineering involves emails where the victims will reveal their sensitive information.

2: I could not agree more. especially as someone who resides in Florida. It was not that long ago, just recently as a matter of fact, and a specific bank was having an issue with an outside party hooking up an additional card reader and it would then steal the customer information. Everyone was warned to be on the look our and not use any ATM machine that looked as though it was tampered with. There are always things like this happening. As fast as technology advances there are shady parties advancing their own methods of ways to rip people off. Always staying vigilant and aware has helped me to avoid these types of situations.

3; Please define social engineering attacks and their impact and effectiveness?

4: Find a current article describing various attacks, techniques, and tools to discover security threats and vulnerabilities.