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Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
John McAfee
Hacker
Become
Engineering
About
More
Hackers
Most
Social
Average
Social Engineering
Successful
There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
Frank Abagnale
Today
Technology
Engineering
Cannot
Social
Social Engineering
Defeated
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
John McAfee
Hacker
Engineering
Else
Someone
Data
High-Tech
Combination
Access
Gain
Social
Social Engineering
Who
Uses
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
Kevin Mitnick
Key
Hacker
Engineering
Something
Network
Access
Person
Influencing
Information
Gain
Social
Social Engineering
Your
Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
Bill Bradley
Political
Become
Engineering
Vehicle
Over
Years
Tax
Tax Code
Social
Social Engineering
Code
I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.
Frank Abagnale
Engineering
Think
Outside
Box
Deal
How
Decades
Taught
Social
Social Engineering
Four
I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.
John McAfee
Today
Me
You
Trust
Engineer
First
White
Engineering
Tool
Way
Hat
Purely
Only
Hacking
Sort
Trust Me
Any
Social
Aside
Ask
Then
Social Engineering
Use
Reasonably
Technique
Competent
We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.
Joseph Nye
World
Build
Engineering
Live
Danger
We Cannot
Visions
About
Diverse
Know
Sure
How
Cultures
Very
Improve
Nations
Cannot
Little
Social
Social Engineering
Grave
Pose
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper
Technology
Engineering
Physical
Beyond
Province
Ends
Regarding
Social
Social Engineering
Resembles
Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.
Kevin Mitnick
Benefits
Organization
Engineering
Action
Release
Comply
Insider
Some
Perform
Sort
Within
Item
Trusted
Person
Get
Influence
Deception
Information
Social
Manipulation
Request
Social Engineering
Using
The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.
Noam Chomsky
Construction
Engineering
Society
Changed
Project
Complex
System
Physical
Clearly
Massive
Very
America
Quite
Suburban
Elaborate
Social
Really
Social Engineering
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
Stockwell Day
Government
Past
Engineering
Our
Spending
Fabric
Over
Economy
Also
Undermined
Been
Years
Undisciplined
Government Spending
Same
Social
Land
Social Engineering
Social Fabric
Tearing