Hackers and Social Engineering Techniques

 Do you know what social engineering is? Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into doing actions or exposing confidential information. It's trickery or deception to gather information, fraud, or computer system access where in the hacker never comes face-to-face with the victim. Here are some of the social engineering techniques:

The hacker steals passwords through guessing the victim's password reminder question with the help of gathered information from his or her social networking profile. One incident was when Hacker Roll was able to guess the password and broke into an e-mail account of Twitter's administrative assistant using the Google's password reset feature. After this, Hacker Roll was able to forward hundreds of pages of internal Twitter documents to different websites including TechCrunch which has published some and referred to others. Another college student also broke into Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account using Yahoo's password reset questions. If you need any kind of information on this article related topic click here: Trusted Hackers for Hire