Social engineering bypasses all technologies, together with firewalls.

We like to communicate with people and most of the times we find pleasure doing it, many people like to interact with different people while walking, traveling, sharing a cab, in an elevator and at many other places. But do you know some times it can lead you towards a problem as well, do you have a question how? Let me try to make you aware of this kind of smart people who are having the wrong intention behind the conversation. It can be considered as a skill through which you can bring out the important credentials from someone using Social Engineering. So now what is Social Engineering? It’s an activity which is done by Hacker so that they can get comfortable with you and meanwhile they get the important information from you without your prior concern.

So what actually they want from you?

It can be any important information which is related to you which can lead them in cracking your passwords of social media account, Email account or UPI pins and so on.

Let’s take up an example of how this activity can be carried out.

One lady was walking on the footpath and another lady came to her with a mic in her hand and with a person having a camera in his hand. She told her that we are carrying out one survey on how secure your password is, is it fine if I asked you some questions regarding it?

She said yes, go ahead.

Then they asked a question to her that what you are having as a password?

She didn’t hesitate to say that it’s my pets name and my date of birth.

Now they ask a few more question and then ask her how many people are staying in your family.

She replied 3 people and one dog.

Another question was, oh Dog I love dogs which bread it is and what you called it?

She replied it’s a puppy and Max is the name.

Then the other lady said you look too young, how old are you?

She said I am 26.

Again she said oh wow I am 27 my birthday is on 26th April and yours?

She said mine is on 4th July.

She didn’t find any problem sharing this information’s but meanwhile, the other persons get the data which they want from her, like her pet name and date of birth which she used as a password.

Password is were important for all of us, we need to have a strong password so that our account can be hard to crack and also be aware of what you are sharing with people. Another solution is don’t use such simple passwords and change it on a regular basis because you never know what are the intentions of the other person. In every 39 seconds, one cyber-attack is been carried out and we need to take care that we are not easy to target. So this is how one can get a victim of Social engineering,

and that's why it's considered as one of the most important part of hacking, be aware and stay safe.