A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.