Access Quote by Kevin Mitnick

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

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 engineering is the clever manipulation and control of ideas in a sequenced pattern that doesn't change.

— Jeremy Limn

'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

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

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

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

— John McAfee

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

— John McAfee

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

— Thomas Sowell

Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

— Brian Solis

Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.

— Mary Pilon