Monday, June 18, 2007

"Social engineering"

Today's topic is "social engineering".

??What does it mean??

Well, I researched. It means to steal some one's personal information illegaly ; such as password or secretary important number or something like that by using social behavior.
It's like hacking, but it's very difficult to prevent because hackers use very smart and complicated ways to cheat us.
For example, hacker pretends to boss of a kind of web sites which has many users. Then, the hacker calls a customer, "Your password doesn't work. So tell me your number again now??"
More simple way to get someone's information is looking from behind when the person is typing password. Also hackers can get information from trash box!

I thought that hackers have such a wonderful skill, so if I don't learn about these ways, I could be cheated easily...

By the way, here is the picture that I found recently. It is my desire!!
http://kakegawastyle2.hamazo.tv/usr/kakegawastyle/545.jpg

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