**********Social engineering (security)**************** Definition: Social engineering is a type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, this method uses a psychological affection of the human and exploits such qualities as a courtesy, trustfulness, abstraction, enthusiasm, laziness, or greed etc. Now, it should be clear. When we talk about Social engineering, we must listen carefully. It’s a huge danger that you have faced at all when using the internet or any communication. Social networking sites & Social engineering: Social networking sites such as Facebook include a hundred of Social engineering. So, be careful when using social networking sites. In the past few previous, Social engineering had a huge growth in Social networking sites like what we had shown on Facebook from announcements and temptations such as “now you can calculate your Mental age, just click here and answer questions” and “have you been poked, yet? Add me as a friend. You must avoid doing such this things to be safe. Ahmed Wassef
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:58:59 +0000