social engineer
English
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editNoun
editsocial engineer (plural social engineers)
- One who engages in social engineering.
- 1911, Edwin Lee Earp, The Social Engineer, Eaton & Mains, page 295:
- We need another type of social engineer for the country problem, who will be able to direct the social forces of a whole county and relate them to the best interests of State and county.
- 2010, Christopher Hadnagy, Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, John Wiley, page (unpaginated):
- [Pretexting] is one of the critical points for many social engineers. Pretexting involves developing the role the social engineer will play for the attack on the company. Will the social engineer be a customer, vendor, tech support, new hire, or something equally realistic and believable?
Verb
editsocial engineer (third-person singular simple present social engineers, present participle social engineering, simple past and past participle social engineered)
- To achieve or access by means of social engineering.
- Leon social engineered his way into our corporate intranet.