Social Engineering

Social engineering is that computer criminals use technique in order to abuse personal data and invade social security system by collecting them inappropriately.

One of examples of social engineering is pretexting. The purpose of this way is to get information by deceiving companies and people. Another example is phishing. By using this way, computer criminals tend to obtain information, such as passwords and credit card details.

Recently, newspapers and TV programs have been expressed social engineering, because a lof of people were deceived by computer criminals. As a result, many people are being stolen significant individual data and even money. To escape from such terrible damages, computer users must care when they type their information on the Internet so as not to give them to computer criminals.