Question

Tricking someone to reveal personal information, passwords, and other information that can compromise a security system is known as:
a. mass marketing
b. social engineering
c. telephone solicitation
d. hacking

Answer 1

Social engineering is when a person convinces someone to reveal personal information and security system. Those people who use social engineering can trick people through telephone interactions, face-to-face interactions, and email or web interactions. In telephone interaction, they act like a technician but attempts to gather information from the victim. The person who uses face-to-face interactions is when the victim is interrogated to get information. And in email or web interactions, these social social engineering technique will send survey forms that asks personal information such as bank account.