Social Engineering

A skill by which an unauthorized person gains the trust of someone inside an organization and encourages the victim to make a change to the IT system in order to grant the attacker access. It can also be used as a means to trick a victim into disclosing information to the attacker. An attack based on deceiving users or administrators at the target site. For example, a person who illegally enters computer systems by persuading an authorized person to reveal IDs, passwords, and other confidential information.