Talk:Social engineering (security)/Archive 2

I think using this example to provide what could be someone’s first chance to understand social engineering is poorly judged. It centres around malicious code injection, which is rarely seen as central to modern social engineering. It has almost no overlap with the human element that is so central to what SE relates to. Does anyone have thoughts on the matter? -Sev

‘An example of social engineering is the use of the "forgot password" function on most websites which require login. An improperly-secured password-recovery system can be used to grant a malicious attacker full access to a user's account, while the original user will lose access to the account.’ Severrrr (talk) 13:42, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 09:37, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Hich 130.193.201.248 (talk) 09:20, 5 August 2022 (UTC)