Social engineering
For many attacks to exist, the victim is required to disclose personal information in some way; this is known as social engineering. Hackers are everywhere and they never sleep, whether it might be an SMS text message with an evil intention or a phishing e-mail that is watching every step of yours on your mobile devices.
Whether you're an IT manager protecting employees and corporate systems or you're simply trying to keep your own personal data safe, these threats—some rapidly growing, others still emerging—pose a potential risk.
A good source for a definition of social engineering is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security).
Social engineering is committing an act of manipulating people into executing actions or disclosing confidential information, such as an ID and password or bank account, credit card, or social security number. There are two forms of social engineering: one is phishing and the other is spear phishing, where persons represent themselves...
