social engineering

Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts article• The Register

[Editors Note: In an age of increasingly sophisticated technology-based cyber crime it is all too easy to forget that the key to success of many if not most cyber exploits is what hackers call "social engineering". Extracting passwords or other sensitive information through seemingly innocuous conversations, crafting web pages, email scams, and phishing schemes that mimic or manipulate reality in ways that pray on the weaknesses of individual psychology.

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