English-Dutch translations for social engineering

Definition of social engineering

• Use of numerical data to inform social programs
• Efforts to influence attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population
• The practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection

Examples

• Using social engineering, the new cardinal has efficiently re-arranged the Churchs outreach.
• "This is Your Brain on Drugs" was a humorous failure at social engineering.
• After our hacking attempts failed, we tried social engineering, walking into the building and claiming we had to do some urgent work in the server room.

Related words

• social science
• social sciences
• social emergency
• social environment
• medical-social centre
• social media intelligence
• scientific socialism
• Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
• The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (virallinen käännös