Social engineering can be defined as a form of psychological manipulation that persuades a person into giving up confidential information. It is a form of a cyberattack that uses trickery and deception instead of using any type of software exploit. Of course, software is involved in building a social engineering attack, but the main component is how well you deceive the target into believing what you are doing is legitimate.
Software and humans are really not that different from each other. You may be wondering how humans and software can be so similar. Well, when it comes to vulnerabilities in both software and humans, these can be exploited and taken advantage of by attackers to get what they want. In relation to software, it's related to buggy code that is generally exploited, which leads to flaws in software that an attacker can compromise...