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Social Engineering


{LANG_NAVORIGIN} Exploits Social Engineering
By: Del Armstrong , 02/24/2004



A classic social engineering trick is for a hacker to send email claiming to be a system administrator. The hacker will claim to need your password for some important system administration work, and ask you to email it to him/her. As we explain later, it's possible for a hacker to forge email, making it look like it came from somebody you know to be a legitimate system administrator. Often the hacker will send this message to every user on a system, hoping that one or two users will fall for the trick.

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