Social engineering is a kind of criminal related to computer using. It is caused by an outside hacker's tricks in order to obtain information the hacker needs to access to the system. Also, it's to get information from a person without breaking into a system. Moreover, everyone seems to agree upon is hacker has a clever control skill to make people trust him. Always, the hacker's purpose is to gain illegal access to an important system and information. Social engineering is not exactly the same as hacking. Social engineering attack takes place on the physical and psychological. On the physical attack, the hacker attacks in the workplace, your trash, and on the phone.
For example, the hacker walks into your workplace and pretends like a maintenance worker or consultant who has access to the organization. Another way to get information to access a system is just watching employee’s type in his password.
These explanations tell us how dangerous social engineering is and, also, how to protect our information from that danger. I think it's not easy, but, if the security to keep information inside the organization is completely built, the information will not leak out.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Social Engineering
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