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08/18/05
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Social Engineering Fundamentals, Part II: Combat StrategiesAdded by Papergrl
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This is the second part of a two-part series devoted to social engineering. In Part One, we defined social engineering as a hacker's clever manipulation of the natural human tendency to trust, with the goal of obtaining information that will allow him/her to gain unauthorized access to a valued system and the information that resides on that system. To review: the basic goals of social engineering are the same as hacking in general: to gain unauthorized access to systems or information in order to commit fraud, network intrusion, industrial espionage, identity theft, or simply to disrupt the system or network.
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