ABSTRACT
Social Engineering refers to the manipulation of people into releasing information or performing an action. e result of the manipulation is a direct loss of information by the company and/or the achievement of some action that is desired by the social engineering attacker, such as access to computer networks. ere are two main approaches that are used by social engineers to perform their attack: technology or human. ese are not either/or approaches because social engineers often use a combination of technological and human approaches to persuade their target to release information or perform an action.
