The process of using interpersonal communication skills to
get unauthorized access to company assets is called:
A. wire tapping.
B. trap doors.
C. war dialing.
D. social engineering.
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Answer: D
Social engineering is a term that describes a nontechnical
kind of intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction
and often involves tricking other people into breaking
normal security procedures. Wire tapping is a technique used
for getting the signals transmitted over cables without
disturbing the flow between the source and destination. Trap
doors are a deliberately left break in the software source
code by programmers to enable the insertion of additional
debugging code. The trap door may be used later for some
unwanted purposes. War dialing involves trying out all the
published phone numbers of the company to find one that is
connected to a modem and subsequently using that as an entry
point into the corporate databases.
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