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what is social engineering?
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Social Engineering is just a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures.
Social engineering tactics are used by many:-
- virus writers to persuade people to run malware-laden email attachments
- phishers to convince people to divulge sensitive information
- scareware vendors to frighten people into running software that is useless at best and dangerous at worst.
Source(s): Associated with http://www.testing-whiz.com/download.html - 8 years ago
it is typically trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access