Complete Definition of "social engineering"

English

Noun
social engineering

  1. (computer security) The practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection
  2. (political science) Use of propaganda by an authoritarian government to sway perceptions and attitudes of its own citizenry

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w:social engineering|Wikipedia disambiguation page on social engineering

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