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
• Elements of both the Left and the Right are minded toward social engineering.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
• 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
• That’s one reason tax expenditures aimed at social engineering should be on the chopping block.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 18 July 2024
• Kroll’s 2024 Data Breach Outlook report also shows that social engineering attacks, such as phishing scams, are on the rise.
  — María Soledad Davila Calero, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
• Everything is social engineering in the new live-action version of The Little Mermaid.
  — Armond White, National Review, 26 May 2023
• But as with last year’s price increases, the new hikes are also a subtle bit of social engineering, strategic moves meant to push consumers in certain directions or else pay up.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
• 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
• Phishing attacks will be more powerful, as will social engineering that allows attackers the ability to break into accounts.
  — Tina Reed, Axios, 15 July 2024
• Proofpoint's Secure Email Relay Solution allows customers to block unwanted phishing emails that can lead to data breaches and social engineering scams.
  — David Paiz-Torres, PCMAG, 29 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024