STANDARD DEFINITION OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING

>STANDARD DEFINITION OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING

[1] Social engineering is d human side of breaking in to a corporate network
companies3 d authentication processes,firewall,virtual private networks nd network monitoring softwares are still wide open 2 attackssocial engineering is d hardest form of attack to defend against bcoz it can't be defend vd hardware or software alone.
sometimes wen u open a website then u see der something written like"congrats' u r d 1lakhth visitor click here 2 claim"
on dese places everyday thousands of ppl give der credit cards information easily,
der r 2 types of social engineering
[first]HUMAN BASED SOCIAL ENGINEERING
IT IS CATEGORIZED IN 2 DESE PARTS
-->impersonation
--->posing as imp. user
--->3rd person approcah
--->technical support
--->COMPUTER BASED SOCIAL ENGINEERING<-------------
these r classified in dese
-->mail/im attachments
-->pop up windows
--->sweepstakes
--->spam mail
  
wen u vl do something big in ur future then while planning u vl understand d imporataince of social enginnering.
mind it,4 tracing some1 wen u send som1 a e mail or wen u say him 2 send a file or accept a file 4m him then these things r also social egineering.
we wiill be using this social engineering while sending some1 trojan/keylogger nd 4 many more things.these things vl come in dis course in future.keep waiting,