How to Use social engineering in a Sentence

social engineering

noun

• It’s time for the forced social engineering at the expense of the taxpayers to stop.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 4 May 2018
• There are two ways to pull off this social engineering trick, Mack told me.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 9 June 2018
• But the suits say the sanctions amount to a ham-handed attempt at social engineering that backfired.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
• Many threats are levied against the front line, from social engineering to technical means, and these threats are often the first domino to fall in a sequence of events.
  — Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• In this case bigotry, social engineering, a real-life tragedy and the politics of black women's hair are just some of the subjects showcased in the films.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 30 Jan. 2020
• As a new mother, Wang said she was perplexed that such a strict policy of social engineering could take hold.
  — Jeffrey Fleishmanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• Finally, be aware of how phishing and social engineering attacks work and how to guard against them.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2020
• While the Twitter hack garnered major headlines, the social engineering attack at the heart of it is nothing new.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 31 July 2020
• This way, the attack doesn't need to rely on trickery and social engineering to infect victims.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
• Keeping the public in tallying mode is a low form of social engineering.
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
• In the world of cybercrime and hacking, this is in the category called social engineering.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2021
• Logging into your accounts with an email address and password is fine, up to a point, but these details can get lost, stolen, guessed, or teased out of you with some clever social engineering.
  — David Nield, Wired, 12 July 2020
• For all that realism, though, Marrs pins his plot on a government eager to do some social engineering.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
• Ariely, for his part, predicted that nudges were just the beginning, and held out for more ambitious social engineering.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• This type of ‘hack’ generally known as social engineering relies on con artistry rather than code.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2020
• Social media fraud is part of an ecosystem of online crime that relies on social engineering and trust between users.
  — WIRED, 26 July 2023
• School busing in Boston is a case study on how not to conduct grand experiments in social engineering.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
• Everything is social engineering in the new live-action version of The Little Mermaid.
  — Armond White, National Review, 26 May 2023
• The confrontation also underscores the huge gamble Biden is taking with some of the most ambitious social engineering in decades.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• Meta claimed that the personas were carrying out social engineering attacks on targets, attempting to get the victims to click on links that would unmask their IP address.
  — Forbes Daily, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• This could become a valuable tool for when hackers steal data from victims or try to perfect their social engineering attacks.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
• Hackers used social engineering to target some of Twitter’s employees and then gained access to the high-profile accounts.
  — Zen Soo, The Denver Post, 16 July 2020
• The ban is all that more unusual given Hadnagy’s social engineering village drew crowds.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2022
• Once hooked, consumers are robbed of choice, milked for profit, deprived of privacy and made the subjects of stealth social engineering experiments.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
• At this point the story takes a sharp turn into social engineering and miscarriage of justice — the plight of Black residents at the mercy of the monolithic auto industry.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2021
• But because of the nature of MDM, successful takeover of devices would have required a substantial amount of social engineering to get users to go through all the steps voluntarily.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 13 July 2018
• The attackers might try other ways to obtain the master password of your account, like phishing attacks and social engineering.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 23 Dec. 2022
• In May 2020, the Federal Trade Commission posted a message on its website with a screenshot of a social engineering attack email.
  — Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021
• Victims had to visit a third-party app store to install the malicious software, but the hackers used social engineering techniques to trick them into doing so.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 24 Apr. 2021
• Criminals are using the same social engineering techniques that have proven effective in email scams.
  — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024