Social Engineering
Social engineering is an age-old art that is still popular (and effective) today. Social engineering is the act of tricking someone into
Divulging privileged information such as passwords, equipment, architectures, personnel information, or just about anything else you can imagine.
Making some adjustment to the system that will allow or facilitate privilege elevation, system compromise, removal of an audit trail, or the like.
Adjusting privileged data directly, such as salary, discipline records, and so on.
Running a malicious or Trojan program (see the next section about Trojan programs).
Consider the following classic example, which starts with a phone call to the help desk of a large corporation. A relatively young and inexperienced ...
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