What is Social Engineering

Social Engineering is the most popular and 100% working tool use by hacker to attack on target system.  Social engineering is the trick and mode of gaining sensitive information by exploiting the basic human nature like Trust, Fear, Helping nature etc. There is no software, firewall systems or antivirus that can protect human stupidity. Social Engineering is the term hacker or attacker use to breaking into a network system with the help of human weakness. Various corporate sector and many companies put authentication processes, firewalls, IDS & IPS, Virtual Private Network and network monitoring software to secure their company network and data from the malicious attack or hacker but still hacker can break this all major security devices by doing social engineering and break companies network security. eg. Companies are putting so much efforts and new technologies to secure their company network and data from malicious attack but if an employee may unwittingly give key information by replaying unknown email or by answering questions over the phone with someone they do not know then hacker can use this information to break the computer security with minimum efforts that’s why Social Engineering plays very vital role and important role for hackers. social engineering attacks is very difficult to protect by any security systems