Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

Choosing a hard-to-guess, but easy-to-remember password is important!

We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.