What is Social engineering

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An activity that is conducted by perpetrators on individuals in the hopes of gaining some personal information, such as credit card numbers, banking information, user names, passwords, and so forth. Social engineering can take the form of e-mails, mail, and phone calls. The authors of social engineering activities exploit individuals willing to trust, often with bad consequences. It often relies on non-technical means and involves tricking individuals to give up personal information. Social engineering perpetrators often rely on the goodness and natural tendency of people to help others. Learn more in: Combating Computer Fraud

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Techniques to manipulate people to obtain information from them that they would not give you voluntarily. Learn more in: The Ethics of Deception in Cyberspace

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An activity that is conducted by perpetrators on individuals in the hopes of gaining some personal information, such as credit card numbers, banking information, user names, passwords, and so forth. Social engineering can take the form of e-mails, mail, and phone calls. The authors of social engineering activities exploit individuals willing to trust, often with bad consequences. It often relies on non-technical means and involves tricking individuals to give up personal information. Social engineering perpetrators often rely on the goodness and natural tendency of people to help others. Learn more in: Understanding Computer Security

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The act of gaining either unauthorized access to a system or sensitive information, such as passwords, through the use of trust and relationship building with those who have access to such information. Learn more in: Guarding Corporate Data from Social Engineering Attacks

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An attack where the perpetrator uses social skills to trick or manipulate a legitimate employee into providing confidential company information. Learn more in: An Overview of Threats to Information Security

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An attack technique carried out by social engineers seeking unauthorized access to valuable information assets. This technique exploits human vulnerability in the interaction with humans by using deception and manipulation in order to bypass information security policy. Learn more in: Social Engineering in Information Security Breaches and the Factors That Explain Its Success: An Organizational Perspective

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Act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques. Learn more in: Online Social and Business Networks’ Implications for Corporate Strategy

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Manipulating people through their natural trust or desire to help in order to trick them into divulging information or performing actions. Learn more in: Marketing Vulnerabilities in an Age of Online Commerce

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A type of attack taking advantage of human gullibility. Learn more in: Network Worms

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Acquiring information about computer systems through non-technical means (Winkler, 1996). Also defined as the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users (Wikipedia, 2006). Learn more in: Critical Success Factors and Indicators to Improve Information Systems Security Management Actions

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A collection of techniques used to manipulate people, often via a computer or telephone, into performing acts or divulging confidential information to facilitate the execution of a fraud. Learn more in: The Complex New World of Information Security

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The exploitation of psychological triggers and cognitive biases as a means to gain unauthorized access to information or information systems. Learn more in: Social Engineering and its Countermeasures

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the design and implementation of logical procedures to persuade victims to supply confidential information to a spoofed entity. Learn more in: Emerging Cybercrime Variants in the Socio-Technical Space

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Social engineering is an attack method taking advantage of human nature. Learn more in: Malicious Software in Mobile Devices

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attacks taking advantage of human nature for deception. Learn more in: Identity Theft through the Web

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Manipulating people through their natural trust or desire to help in order to trick them into divulging information or performing actions. Learn more in: Marketing Vulnerabilities in an Age of Online Commerce

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Psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. Learn more in: A Routine Activity Theory-Based Framework for Combating Cybercrime

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The art and science of manipulating people and processes to get what an attacker wants. Learn more in: Social Engineering Techniques, Password Selection, and Health Care Legislation: A Health Care Setting

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The act of obtaining private information through non-technical means. Learn more in: The Security Impacts on Social Media Platforms

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It is the art of manipulating the mental state of the people in an attempt of divulging the sensitive information. It is the most dangerous danger that today’s enterprises are facing. Learn more in: Reviewing the Security Features in Contemporary Security Policies and Models for Multiple Platforms

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The manipulation of another human being to reveal sensitive or private information (such as through deception), often used to commit fraud. Learn more in: Safe Distances: Online and RL Hyper-Personal Relationships as Potential Attack Surfaces