Social Engineering

~Social Engineering~

Definition of Social Engineering: Someone who steals important information such as password in order to invade computers without the person does not use a computer.

Things are changing and nowadays a new type of crime appeared that is Social Enginnering, and it is also called Social hacking and Social cracking.

There are some technique to steal information : SHOULDER HACK, which is someone who steals information from the back. TRASHING, which is someone who ...from trash boxes, and to pick up Net work structure plans, catalogue of IP address and user name. SPOOFING, which is someone who...from others by using telephone. The person pretends to be a someone such as user or manager, and then get information.

Unfortunate people are used their password at online shopping by someone. About 380 Japanese were involved the crime.