Social engineering is defined as the process of obtaining others passwords or
personal information by the act of manipulating people
rather than by
breaking in or using technical cracking techniques. Here I will show you an example on how social
engineering works
Example 1
Robert (Hacker) calls Michael and pretends to be a Google employee, Here is the
conversation:
Robert: Hi Michael I am Robert a Google employee
Michael: OH How are you doing?
Robert: Me fine. I am here to inform you that Google is performing a
security update on all Google accounts and we therefore need to
install those securities updates on
