Social Engineering Attack Quotes

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.