The awareness of social engineering in information revolution: Techniques and challenges

The main purpose of this paper is to expound and clarify the term social engineering and common techniques used by attackers. In addition, it tries to highlight and evaluate the user´s awareness around the world of social engineering attacks. Meanwhile, advices and solutions have been listed in order to minimize all risks could be caused by any certain attack. For instance, educational training should be conducted for all employees to warn them about varies techniques that attackers follow to drawn any victim. Another practice solution is to emphasize the protection of personal privacy among entire organization to prevent any leak of personal information which is the first key that attacker could obtain it easily.