security//social engineering

Social engineering manipulates people into revealing information, granting access or performing an action useful to an attacker. It targets trust, urgency, authority and routine rather than only software defects.

Social engineering manipulates people into revealing information, granting access or performing an action useful to an attacker. It targets trust, urgency, authority and routine rather than only software defects.

Generative AI changes the economics more readily than the underlying psychology. Personalized messages, multilingual conversation and repeated experimentation become cheaper, but success still depends on reaching the right person at the right moment with a credible story.

Humans are not “the weakest link” by nature. They are often the only adaptable control placed in front of an incoherent process.