Sunday, June 17, 2007

Social engineering

Social engineering is classic fraud action that is used to get personal information, password or ID of computer. Recently, many technical hacking such as “fishing fraud” happen but social engineering is different from technical hacking. People who do social engineering use classic techniques, which are get password from wastepaper that you threw away, or ask information from someone by pretending friends or boss. These frauds have happened in many situations in our life. For example, when you use ATM to draw your money, you have to put password on monitor, in this time someone may look in your password. When you put password and ID on computer at school, others may get your password. Like this, everyone can be possible to be cheated. However, if you notice for these hacking, you can avoid to be cheated.

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