Tuesday, February 13, 2007

What is Social Engineering?

The word of social engineering is used especially by hackers, and it means fraud. It is also called social racking or social hacking. Obviously, it is one of the crimes. These hackers get innocent users' passwords and information of the users through the Internet. When they steal the information of the users, they pretend that they are nice people or they make imaginary company and tell the users that the company is safety. When they do this, they use psychological tricks so that they can impose people’s mind easily. Also, some of them memorize someone’s password. Email is great target, too because there are a lot of ways to do bad things. Therefore, we should not completely trust in computer, and remind that there are disadvantage things, not only advantage things on computer.

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