What is Social Engineering and why should I care?
Would you care if someone gained access to your credit card or bank account number? When thieves gain access to sensitive information, they can devastate the lives of individuals, and destroy the reputation of institutions. Social Engineering is a term used to describe recent methods that are being employed to steal sensitive information from Institutions. Rather than using difficult and technically complicated attempts to find holes in computer security, these hackers have found a much easier way to gain access: con employees into voluntarily giving access to the information. Information stolen can be anything of value to the hacker, but typically includes such things as social security numbers, passwords and other personal information, credit cards and financial information, and confidential communications. The thieves range from individual criminals to sophisticated international organized crime. They can also be professionals such as private investigators, bill collectors, and mark
