Social engineering is also called social hacking or social cracking. Social engineering is stealing important security information such as ID or passwords, not by technically but by socially. Popular example is picking through trash of a company or an organization and finding discs that contain secret documents or important data. Even you may use a paper shredder, it can be reconnected. Also, it is other way calls and asks information by lying about his/her identity. In a company, perpetrators may pass himself off as a boss, call to system management center, and say “I forgot passwords, so please tell me again”. There are a lot of other ways. Companies have to set up exacting rules of important data to prevent social engineering.
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