“DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS, SENT UNDER THE TOPICS SUCH AS SICK CHILD, ANIMAL RIGHTS, UPDATING AND SO ON!”
A great proportion of attacks, realized at the social media environments that have a substantial size of market are carried out of the social engineering applications by taking advantage of the sentimental aspects of the users. The Academic Member Dr. Serkan Gönen of the Istanbul Gelişim University, who indicated that it has been started to witness the incidents such as hacking of social media accounts, publication beyond the knowledge of the user and asking for ransom for the return of the account very frequently further added as follows: “First of all, at the end of clicking on the links, sent with the titles of especially updatings, violence to women, animal rights, sick child and so on, the links goes to an address belonging to the attacker before all else and causes the seizure of the passwords belonging to the users. Then link is redirected to the legal page so that the users cannot be aware of the attack in various numbers of attacks and by this means, the users may be caused to think about the fact that they might enter a wrong password.”
Mr. Gönen, who indicated that it was necessary for the users to pay attention to the matter for the protection from the social engineering attacks, also emphasised that the search engines were not reliable and secure either.
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