What Is Social Engineering? @PirateSoftware

what is social engineering so social

engineering is when you are trying to

either manipulate a situation to get a

certain outcome with another person I

use it more often to try and figure out

what somebody needs in order to move

forward or move past the thing that's

blocking them a lot of times I used it

when I was in you know offensive

security to try and get into areas of

access that I wasn't supposed to be in I

roleplay as a character or I do anything

like that to try and move forward to do

that you know to try and trick them into

letting me have access where I shouldn't

have access or get information out of an

employee that I shouldn't have a good

example of this is let's say you're a

customer service representative and I

call in and while I'm talking to you

about my customer service problem that I

have I say hey I'm thinking about

applying at your business and uh I'm

wondering you know I can't really cook

I'm not good at that can you tell me

what like the best places to eat in the

area cuz I'll be there pretty soon for

an interview and then you tell me where

you eat in the area and now I know where

to go to be able to clone your badge if

I need to break into your office that is

part of social engineering it's starting

kind of a situation like that for an

ulterior motive is the idea