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Social Engineering

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Kevin Mitnick (Hacker)—one of the most famous social engineers in the world.He explained that it is much easier to trick someone into revealing a password for a system than to exert the effort of hacking into the system. Mitnick claims that this social engineering tactic was the single-most effective method in his arsenal.

Social engineering, in the context of information security, is misunderstood to mean the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information."Social engineering" as an act of psychological manipulation had previously been associated with the social sciences, but its usage has caught on among computer and information security professionals.All social engineering techniques are based on specific attributes of human decision-making known as cognitive biases. These biases, sometimes called "bugs in the human hardware," are exploited in various combinations to create attack techniques, some of which are listed here:

1. Examines social engineering, the science of influencing a target to perform a desired task or divulge information

2. Pretexting.

3. Phishing.

4. Arms you with invaluable information about the many methods of trickery that hackers use in order to gather information with the intent of executing identity theft, fraud, or gaining computer system access

5. Diversion theft.

6. Baiting.

7. Tailgating.

8. Reveals vital steps for preventing social engineering threats

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