A Hacker Doesnt Deliberately Destroy Data Or

A Company Can Spend Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars On Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems And Encryption And Other Security Technologies, But If An Attacker Can Call One Trusted Person Within The Company, And That Person Complies, And If The Attacker Gets In, Then All That Money Spent On Technology Is Essentially Wasted.

Social Engineering Bypasses All Technologies, Including Firewalls.

The Key To Social Engineering Is Influencing A Person To Do Something That Allows The Hacker To Gain Access To Information Or Your Network.

All They Need To Do Is To Set Up Some Website Somewhere Selling Some Bogus Product At Twenty Percent Of The Normal Market Prices And People Are Going To Be Tricked Into Providing Their Credit Card Numbers.

It Was Used For Decades To Describe Talented Computer Enthusiasts, People Whose Skill At Using Computers To Solve Technical Problems And Puzzles Was - And Is - Respected And Admired By Others Possessing Similar Technical Skills.