English-Latvian 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.
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