Social engineering is using human interaction (social skills) to obtain or compromise data/information about an organization or its computer systems. This information can them be used to deploy an attack and/or penetrate a network further. Social engineering attacks are particularly dangerous because they prey on our human instincts, interactions and dealings with people and our contextual environment. An attacker may not fit the stereotype we hold in our heads. Social engineering preys on the fact that humans will have our guard up for natural signs of danger and natural enemies, but things get fuzzy when the distinction is not so clear. In social engineering, the attacker may seem unassuming, respectable…