Action Quote by 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

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

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

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 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

People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice,…

— Kevin Mitnick

Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.

— Marley Dias

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Thomas Sowell

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 engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

— Kevin Mitnick