Social engineering is the mean to pump personal or confidential information in psychological ways. It is also called social work, social hacking, or social cracking. This is originally a computer term, and aiming at getting passwords and enter other computers illegally without giving any damages to them.
Examples of methods;
1. Pretend as system manager and ask passwords.
2. Flicker displays or keyboards when one operates machines (ATM etc.)
3. Steal the paper that passwords are written.
Not only passwords, these methods are used by stealing credit card numbers or making people put money in bank accounts by pretending one of family members (Ore-Ore Swindle) these days.
These ways are also used to pump private information. For example, these people call one’s house pretending as an old classmate and ask one’s or others’ current addresses or telephone numbers, or pretending as home-delivery and ask addresses saying “I don’t know the exact address.” (By the way, I think this is so stupid ;-p)
Examples of methods;
1. Pretend as system manager and ask passwords.
2. Flicker displays or keyboards when one operates machines (ATM etc.)
3. Steal the paper that passwords are written.
Not only passwords, these methods are used by stealing credit card numbers or making people put money in bank accounts by pretending one of family members (Ore-Ore Swindle) these days.
These ways are also used to pump private information. For example, these people call one’s house pretending as an old classmate and ask one’s or others’ current addresses or telephone numbers, or pretending as home-delivery and ask addresses saying “I don’t know the exact address.” (By the way, I think this is so stupid ;-p)
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