Posts Tagged ‘Social Engineering’

There is a very interesting and useful project – a web archive on the Internet – Internet archive Wayback Machine. An organization called the Internet Archive, which was established in 1996 in San Francisco. The archive of the Internet pages is designed to preserve, familiarize and study the information available for all these years in the worldwide network.

The Internet and many applications are so closely integrated into our lives that we sometimes do not imagine life without them. It can be not only our helper, but also play against us.

George V. Hulme and Joan Goodchild collected in one article the foundations of social engineering. Social engineering is essentially the art of gaining access to buildings, systems or data by exploiting human psychology, rather than by breaking in or using technical hacking techniques. Famous hacker Kevin Mitnick helped popularize the term ‘social engineering’ in the ’90s, although the idea and many of the techniques have been around as long as there have been scam artists of any sort.

As world practice shows successfully conducted breakups (successfully attacking, of course), most of the problems associated with it problems with people. To be more precise – it is in their ability to give any information or to make a completely wacky action. Such terms as “phishing” and “social engineering” is often interpreted in relation to the types of scams.