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social engineeringUsing persuasion and deception to obtain confidential information from someone by phone or in person. It is the low-tech approach for breaking into a computer system. Sometimes, a combination of social engineering and hacker skills are used to steal information.
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| Not yet another baleful attempt at social engineering. GA IT support company Guidance Consulting warns that although social engineering is a real threat to large businesses and corporations, Education activist Bruce Deitrick Price argues in a new book that our educators, since the time of John Dewey, have been primarily focused on social engineering schemes, not on academic achievement. |
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