Social Engineering.

Most articles I’ve read on the topic of social engineering begin with some sort of definition like “the art and science of getting people to comply to your wishes” (Bernz 2), “an outside hacker’s use of psychological tricks on legitimate users of a computer system, in order to obtain information he needs to gain access to the system” (Palumbo), or “getting needed information (for example, a password) from a person rather than breaking into a system” (Berg). The one thing that everyone seems to agree upon is that social engineering is generally a hacker’s clever manipulation of the natural human tendency to trust. Here trust is leading to hack our identity. So we have to not trust anybody at all. I think we need to exercise common sense to separate good people and “Social Engineering (SE)” minded people. If somebody crosses red line with in 2-3 meetings by asking questions like birth date, mother’s maiden name, he or she is SE minded people. But we are all human being, tend to make mistakes. The better way to protect ourselves is to use tools to monitor our wealth by using software Quicken(sync with your bank accounts and credit card accounts daily), enrolling some inexpensive credit monitoring service or at least checking credit history once a year(hey..It is free now).