Social Engineering [ Security ]

Authors:
Kevin D. Mitnick

William L. Simon
Steve Wozniak

Social Engineering [ security ] - Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access. [ Source: Wikipedia ]

'The Art Of Intrusion' and 'The Art Of Deception' are two books written by Kevin Mitnick which covers an interesting topic of "Social Engineering" which is a security threat and which needs to be understood by every employee and staffs working in large and even small scale offices.