The 5 Arts of Social Engineering

The social engineering is the art of manipulating the people in the society to get the desire information from them and feed them with desire thoughts to act or think in the desired way by the manipulator wants them to think or do. The art of social is different from technical engineering hence its termed as Social Engineering which deals in the society.
The Social Engineers are the person who often liked by the others just because the way they portrays themselves in the front of other people convenience their subconscious mind. Unlike, science's such as hypnotism and deception too are related to this. Achieving the mastery is although difficult in it but some persons possess this talent by birth but finding the social engineer in the society is very rare, persons related to big blue chip companies and brands often possess the natural skills of social engineer. The art of Social engineering is very much important for the marketing and sales professional, if you do have and you want to choose marketing, sales, journalism, politics, hypnotist, deceptionist, interrogator and hacker as a career then Congratulation you are made for this by birth.

We often see person's are very talkative and we do classify them as either energetic,bold,outspoken or very boring. But studies shows that these type of persons have the special abilities to convenience anyone for anything. The natural personality of these people are both at the same time i.e extrovert as well as introvert. There minds are always in the direction of the succeeding and preceding thoughts and communicating with them can make you feel the way he/she wants you to feel this the reason why they are good in above mentioned fields. In context to the hacks, they use some common hacks known as Common Social Engineering Attacks.
The social engineers are hired by government agencies to hack into the system of other untrusted or doubtful sources. In this context, it encompasses a wide & broad spectrum of malicious activity. The most common social engineering hacks done by the security hackers are as follows:-

1. Pretexting- The good way where the social engineers procreate the certain circumstances or fabricated scenario to try and steal their victims personal information. More advanced attacks will also try to manipulate their targets into performing an action that enables them to exploit the structural weaknesses of an organization or company.
2. Phishing- One of the most used and most common type of hacks. This specific phishing campaign demonstrates how attackers commonly pair malware with phishing attacks in an effort to steal users’ information.
3. Baiting- The baiting is almost similar to the Phishing at many extent. They are different then phishing of just one reason that they promise of an item that use to entice the desired victims. Baiters may offer users free music or movie downloads, if they surrender their login credentials to a certain site .
4. Quid-Pro-Quid- This technique is quite similar to the Baiting, hackers promises a benefits in exchange of information. The quick way to identify is that the fraudster will offer in the quick way and in quick fix in terms of exchange.
5. Tailgating- Another name is piggybacking. This are mostly used by the person who don't have the proper authentication for the access. The hacker can connect the phishing with tailgating. Say for example, by the mode of phishing the hackers get your Credit Card details now he didn't have the more information for encashment. So, he will wait outside the ATM center or outlet for you. Remember after phishing he have your all credit card details except phishing which he didn't found on phishing page due to some error or you changed the password once you realized that site is prone to phishing attacks. When you takes out the cash at ATM he/she will be standing near to you just to look what is you are typing and in which sequence. The moment he got the PIN you're account's money  will be debited. So, never allow anyone to stand behind you at ATM's.

The above mentioned Social engineering ideas are for the system security technicians or system architect or hackers. But this idea's are not limited to Computer Science and technical hacking. Some of the ideas are use by persuaders to persuade you. These are also used by Leaders, Politicians, Public Relation Experts, Public Speakers or Orators.
So, remember the way social engineering is hidden and and secretive in nature thus more complex to master and implement. Often most common people, laymen got stuck and use it in the wrong way and hence harms themselves only. The people should not try to use this techniques because it needs years of mastery and often subject to death or ruining your owns life.