  The article presents a study using attacks such as a fake access point and a
phishing page. The previous publications on social engineering have been
reviewed, statistics of break-ups are analyzed and directions and mechanism of
realization of attacks having elements of social engineering are analyzed. The
data from the research in three different places were collected and analyzed
and the content statistics were provided. For comparison, three categories of
higher education institutions were chosen: technical, humanitarian and mixed
profiles. Since the research was conducted in educational institutions during
the week, most students in the experiment and graduate students took part in
the experiment. For each educational institution, a registration form template
was created that mimicked the design of the main pages. Examples of hardware
and software implementation of a typical stand for attack, data collection and
analysis are given. In order to construct a test stand, widely available
components were chosen to show how easy it is to carry out attacks of this kind
without significant initial costs and special skills. The article provides
statistics on the number of connections, permission to use the address of the
e-mail and password, as well as permission to automatically transfer service
data to the browser (cookies). The statistics are processed using specially
written algorithms. The proposed approaches to solving the problem of
socio-technical attacks can be used and implemented for operation on any
objects of information activity. As a result of the experiments, it is clear
that the awareness of users of even technical specialties is not enough, so one
needs to pay particular attention to the development of methods for raising
awareness of users and reducing the number of potential attacks on objects of
information activity.

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