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What social engineering is

What social engineering is

Diagram showing social engineering in the centre with branches to blagging or pretexting, phishing, and shouldering, each with an example and a matching protection

Social engineering is the art of manipulating people so they reveal confidential information or carry out an action that helps an attacker. Instead of attacking software directly, the attacker attacks human behaviour.

Social engineering Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Social engineering

Step-by-step lessons on AQA GCSE Computer Science Social engineering. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Build strong foundations in binary, logic and core programming constructs before moving on to the more complex algorithm design and evaluation questions.

Lessons