Machu Picchu is 100% handmade. You read that right – Machu Picchu is the best remaining example of Incan engineering. No tools, wheels, or animals were used in constructing the royal estate. Instead, hundreds of men pushed up 50-ton rocks or scaled the mountain to form what we now know as the Incan ruins.
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The actor who played Scotty from Star Trek was given an honorary degree at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The original series only ran for three years, from 1966 to 1969, but it has since inspired generations and led to countless spin-offs. Scotty, who the late James Montgomery Doohan played, was the lead engineer aboard the fictional USS Enterprise spaceship. When the Milwaukee School of Engineering discovered that more than half of its students were inspired to take up engineering because of Scotty, they awarded Doohan with an honorary engineering doctorate.
43% of IT Experts Say They Have Been Attacked Using Social Engineering Methods in 2022. Social engineering has been one of the chief methods of cyber-exploitation in the past years.
Trading app Robinhood fell victim to a social engineering attack that compromised the personal data of 5 million users. (Robinhood)
More than 85% of breaches in 2021 involved a human element (Verizon): The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report for 2021 found around 85% of breaches involved a human element, and 61% involved using an employee’s credentials stolen from the business. In 2021, the majority of attacks came from social engineering, phishing, and Denial of Service attacks, according to Verizon. Particularly, Phishing became one of the most significant threats during the pandemic.