introduction of hacking 7

Social Engineering

A special branch of science of hacking is Social Engineering, under which attacks related to human brain factor are studied. The attacker is called a social engineer. Actually a social engineer is a person with highly sophisticated knowledge of working and responses of human brain. He bears a great amount of attitude and the confidence. He has the great ability to modify himself according to the environment and to respond quickly against any kind of challenges thrown to him. They are always near us in the time of need as fast friends (but not all fast friends are social engineers) and sympathetically hold our emotions and thus get our faith.
A social engineer may join the victim corporation as an employee or may become boyfriend of the administrator.
In security industry it is a well-known fact that it is extremely difficult to stop a social engineer from achieving his goals.
Remember the truth that a social engineer can even make a corporation vulnerable which employs totally flawless software & hardware systems by gaining the privileged access to highly authenticating places within the victim corporations.