social engineering
Speech parts
1. social engineering - Noun
2. social engineering - Verb
Meaning
(sociology) Use of numerical data to inform social programs.
(political science) Efforts to influence attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.
(computer security) The practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection.
social engineering
present participle of social engineer
Examples
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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.
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
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.
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. (All that technology may say about ends is whether they are compatible with each other or realizable.)