Why Is Social Engineering So Effective?
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Social engineering is so effective because it exploits human behavior and capitalizes on people’s fundamental trust in one another. People naturally want to be helpful and accommodating, and they don’t want to appear rude or uncooperative. This makes them vulnerable to manipulation. Social engineering exploits this by preying on people’s natural inclination to trust and by using psychological manipulation to convince people to give up sensitive information or perform certain actions.