social engineering

information security concept: psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information
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social engineering

Summary

social engineering ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (83 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • social engineering is a type of manipulation[2].
  • social engineering is a type of vulnerability[3].
  • social engineering's Commons category is recorded as Social engineering (security)[4].
  • social engineering's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Social engineering (security)[5].
  • social engineering's described by source is recorded as Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, 2nd edition[6].
  • social engineering's different from is recorded as Social engineering[7].
  • social engineering's ACM Classification Code is recorded as 10003000[8].
  • social engineering's name is recorded as {'lang': 'sv', 'text': 'social manipulation'}[9].
  • social engineering's P14541 is recorded as 2QnBL1[10].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include manipulation[2] and vulnerability[3].

Why It Matters

social engineering ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (83 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . dl.acm.org. dl.acm.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . svt.se. Retrieved . svt.se. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19h ago · C960657 · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → social_engineering
    Sitelink count → 53
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'be', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8313]]: social_engineering"
  2. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → social-engineering
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: social-engineering, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289960044|social engineering (#289960044)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  3. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2QnBL1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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