WHAT IS "SOCIAL ENGINEERING"?

Social engineering is also called social hacking and social cracking, and it used to be called con game. Social engineering is the deed aiming at illegal access to computers. Social engineering means that to steal important information such as password from managers and users of network by talking, eavesdropping, and flickering. For instance, hackers flick the password that you are inputting from your behind, search dustbins for notes on which individual information or password are written, or set themselves up as users or customers of network to ask managers for changing password and get new password. Also, they send e-mails with attractive and contrived attachments that have computer virus.

To prevent social engineering, teaching about it to managers and users of network system is effective, and we have to pay attention to social engineering more.