Clever man Quote by Jeremy Limn

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and…

— Kevin Mitnick

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click…

— Kevin Mitnick

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

— Thomas Sowell

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

— Kevin Mitnick

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social…

— Kevin Mitnick

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

— Karl Popper

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

— Barton Gellman

“If social worlds are truly complex, then we might need to recast our various attempts at understanding, predicting, and manipulating their behavior. In some…

— John H. Miller

I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside…

— John McAfee

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

— Kevin Mitnick

Design is a response to social change.

— George Nelson