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social engineering

Using deception to obtain confidential information from someone by phone or in person. For example, the "social engineer" may persuade someone to reveal an ID or password for a supposed benign purpose (my computer is down, can I use yours in the meantime). Sometimes, a combination of social engineering and hacker skills are used to steal information. However, no matter how secure a network may be, the "con" played by the social engineer is often the most effective way to break in.

Outside the computer world, social engineering means to influence attitudes and behaviors. See pretexting and shoulder surfing.

(jargon, security)

social engineering - A term used among crackers and samurai for cracking techniques that rely on weaknesses in wetware rather than software; the aim is to trick people into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target system's security. Classic scams include phoning up a mark who has the required information and posing as a field service tech or a fellow employee with an urgent access problem. See also the tiger team story in the patch entry.

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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.

The Education Enigma--New Book Illuminates the Dark Side of American ... by Bruce Deitrick Price / News, opinion and commentary community

The code's complexityarising from misguided attempts toward social engineering or fairnessis undercutting a foundation of our society: voluntary compliance with the law.

TOO COMPLEX FOR COMPLIANCE? by Staff / BusinessWeek

Shroyer, for example, is working with the nonprofit Anti-Phishing Working Group on an initiative that would replace pages of known phishing sites that have been taken down by internet service providers with an industry-accepted page designed to educate people about social engineering attacks.

RSA: Cybercriminals keeping up with banking safeguards by Dan Kaplan / SC Magazine

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