What Is “Social Engineering”?
I have never heard this term before, so I looked up on the Internet and to my surprise, I got 51,200,000 pages! When I saw the word “Social Engineering,” I imagined some kind of good action for society making use of the techniques of computer engineering, but it is completely different.
The general definition of social engineering is to get or steal someone’s private information by using psychological tricks to carelessness of human mind. Yet, in terms of computer, "Social Engineering" means that the action of illegal entry to other computers by stealing the passwords without damaging the computer itself. In this case, it is also called social hacking and social cracking. The general way to get the password is rather silly for me; pumping the password from the user by pretending to be a system manager, staring at the keyboard or the screen on which the user is inputting the password with standing behind the user, and flicking at the paper on which the password is written. Therefore, in order not to let someone see the password, everybody has to be careful in dealing the password!!