Social Engineering : Giving the Old Flim-Flam Act

Identity Theft

When it comes to cracking into computers and networks, one of the most indispensable tools is “social engineering” and it has little to do with modern computing technologies. In the popular lexicon that predates today's computing technologies, a social engineer might have been called a flimflam man, grifter, or con artist. They have been around for a long time.

The common denominator is that social engineering, grifting, and the con game all require that the perpetrators understand how people work and, more importantly, that they understand human vulnerabilities.

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