Social Engineering

 Social Engineering is the art of extracting sensitive information from people. Social Engineers play with human psychology and trick people into sharing their valuable information. Some basic engineering techniques are:

Eavesdropping:- is a type of Social Engineering footprinting in which the social engineer gathers information by covertly listening to conversations.

Phishing:- In this process of Phishing, emails are sent to a targeted group or individual containing malicious links or redirection to a malicious site to obtain information.

Shoulder Surfing:- In Shoulder Surfing, information is collected by standing behind a target when they are dealing with sensitive information.

Dumpster Diving:- is the process of looking for treasure in the trash. This technique is old but still effective.