Social Engineering Meaning?
4.4BRAINROT SCORESocial Engineering In information security, the use of psychological pressure or deception to influence people into taking actions or revealing confidential information; a form of confidence trick, often one step of a larger scheme.
Origin:Wikipedia describes it as exploiting weaknesses in human decision-making and notes phishing as one type; its early examples include Kevin Mitnick, Susan Headley and Lewis De Payne combining phreaking, hacking and social engineering in Los Angeles in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Described here for awareness only.
First Seen:Late 1970s-early 1980s (early examples, per Wikipedia)
Peak Era:1990s-present
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Using It Correctly In Context)
EXAMPLE USAGE
""The security training opened with a talk on how social engineering targets people, not software.""
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