Social Engineering
The Science of Human Hacking
Christopher Hadnagy
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A Look into the New World of Professional Social Engineering
I suppose your security is your success, and your key to success is your fine palate.
—GORDON RAMSAY
I s…The IBM “2017 Cost of Data Breach Study” states that the average cost of a breach was 3.62 million US$. When the potential for a payout is that large, it’s certainly not hard to see why an attacker would want to use social engineering.
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Christopher Hadnagy
engineer · 3 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Christopher Hadnagy is a security professional and author known for systematizing social engineering as a discipline—the exploitation of human psychology rather than technical vulnerabilities to breach security systems. In the course readings, his work appears as a foundational text on how attackers manipulate human behavior to access systems, establishing the stakes of why security cannot be purely technical but must account for the social and psychological dimensions that cybernetic systems depend on. His framing of social engineering as a "science" is cited to ground the course's broader concern with how AI and networked systems are vulnerable not just at the level of code but at the human interfaces and trust relationships that animate them.
Mentioned in 2 readings
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