Social Engineering Social engineering is the art of manipulating and utilizing human behavior to conduct a security breach. In social engineering, the victim, who is being used as a subject for a security breach, does not realize that he or she is being used. Users are considered to be the weakest link in the security chain and are easy to exploit. The attacker can use various methods in social engineering to gain sensitive and confidential information. The attacker can use methods such as sending an E-mail or redirecting the user to a malicious web page. Several methods can be used, but each method intends to get sensitive and confidential information for a security breach. In social engineering, the attacker psychologically manipulates the victim and misdirects to obtain the desired information. Social engineering can be performed in various ways: Over the telephone In-person Performing a task on a system Social engineering can be considered the base of almost all types of pass...
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