Socially engineered commoners as cyber warriors - Estonian future or present?

摘要

The goal of our paper is to find out the readiness in Estonia to raise awareness of cyber security-related social engineering, especially among common people. We suggest that the awareness and understanding of online social engineering can raise the Estonian defence potential to a new level. Future cyber attacks may complement server attacks with human engineering and spreading misinformation in order to create incentives for treason or mutiny against the decisions of the state. Social engineering of information and people is one way to wage modern information wars.