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In this blog post we will discuss Social Engineering. The point of social engineering is to gain confidential information through human communication. There are a couple ways that we can do this and they are either through an interview or interrogation, and this relies heavily on trust. There are lots of ways to attack a victim with social engineering, some methods include impersonation, reciprocation, influential authority, scarcity, and social relationship. The success rate of social engineering relies on your ability to gain people’s trust and the ability to understand human psychology. Social engineering is probably one of the easiest way to gain confidential information without doing too much work, well just need to be able to communicate well with the victim that you are trying to gather information from.