Definitions for social engineering
so·cial en·gi·neer·ing

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. social engineeringnoun

   The practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection

2. social engineeringnoun

   Use of propaganda by an authoritarian government to sway perceptions and attitudes of its own citizenry

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1. Social engineering

   Social engineering, in the context of information security, is understood to mean the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. This is a type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or gaining computer system access. It differs from traditional cons in that often the attack is a mere step in a more complex fraud scheme. "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.

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1. social engineering

   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, and rubber-hose cryptanalysis.

How to pronounce social engineering?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of social engineering in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of social engineering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of social engineering in a Sentence

1. Rachel Tobac:

   These are the pieces of data cyber criminals spend time searching for to perform social engineering attacks, but now they're all in one place and easily accessible in this leak, which makes social engineering quicker and easier.

2. Pat McDonough:

   I think it's nonsense, the overall policy which is coming out of the White House -- it is coming out of President Obama's philosophy of social engineering on steroids -- we're going to make everybody better if we move everyone to Kingsville. … It’s a failure and is destined to fail.

3. Mark McCloskey:

   We stood on our property defending ourselves against an angry mob. The people that broke down our gate and threatened us were the ones that should have been arrested, it was only after Kim Gardner and her social engineering program decided that criminals are good people and good people are criminals that they decided to come and seize our guns.

4. Tom Kellermann:

   They sit and watch regular communications to understand when somebody would be most receptive to a specially crafted social-engineering email instructing them to make the transfer.

5. Donald Trump:

   If I give you the wrong product you can do all of the social engineering in the world and you're not going to get anything, i've done my job. I'm the product -- the product is me in a sense. But you know you can have all the data in the world if you don't have the right person okay.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Social_Engineering
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=social engineering
3. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#SocialEngineering