This presentation is an introduction to Social Engineering, the most important of all cyber threats.
Social Engineering is the art of a criminal who convinces their victims to behave in a way that will help them take advantage of their vulnerabilities to their own benefit. Social engineering is found in all aspects of our lives, not only in cyber, but it is often this that makes the news.
Cats, dolls, kettles and websites: all play their role in deceiving you and coming after your most valuable possessions.
You will be scared, but you will get a taste of how bad things are out there, and maybe you will be motivated to change the way you think and the way you behave online.
About Basil Manoussos
Basil Manoussos is an experienced Digital Forensics & Cybercrime Consultant, with 15 years of experience in Digital Forensics & Digital Evidence. Basil is also the Manager of the Cyber Academy at Edinburgh Napier University.
He is a Member of the BCS Influence Board. He is also a non-solicitor member of the Privacy Law Subcommittee and the Technology Law and Practice Committee at the Law Society of Scotland. Basil has designed and delivered the Society’s Cybersecurity Certification, the only one of its kind for solicitors in the UK.
He has contributed to INTERPOL’s Project LEADER as a guest speaker and participated in transnational exercises and mock trials with Project SIRUS. He is a regular keynote speaker at conferences around the world, including Cybersecurity Romania, INTERPOL DFEG2023, IEEE BlackSeaCom, and many more. He is a regular guest speaker to universities and colleges, including UCL, Robert Gordon, Glasgow Uni, the University of Strathclyde (where he obtained his MSc in Forensic Informatics), University of West of Scotland, various colleges and the American College of Greece (his alma mater).
He is a visiting lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, West Lothian College and has served in delivering training to postgraduate law students at the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy).
Basil has won the Best Educator award (2023) at the PICCASO Privacy Awards, and he has been a finalist at the Scottish Cyber Awards in 2018 and 2019 (Cyber Evangelist of the Year) and 2023 (Community Award).