ABSTRACT
Social engineering is a technique that can be utilized to convince people to divulge information about themselves, their company, or their organization. However, with the advent of tools like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others, social engineering has become a lot easier for hackers to do. Zillow as a free website offers additional views of the house, including another part of social engineering involves finding out where people work. Social engineering is a technique that can be utilized to convince people to divulge information about themselves, their company, or their organization. By doing some research beforehand, a hacker can trick someone into revealing details they would not normally disclose. Any person with a computer and Internet access can view the publicly available information. It is a good practice for people to lock down their security settings on social networking sites such as Facebook.
