Saturday, 29 September 2012
9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers' Favorite Pick-Up Lines
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is the criminal art of scamming a person into doing something or divulging sensitive information. These days, there are thousands of ways for con artists to pull off their tricks (See: Social Engineering: Eight Common Tactics). Here the author Joan Goodchild looks at some of the most common lines these people are using to fool their victims.
