Social Engineering Database official website is as follows:

Social Engineering Database (Social Engineering Database) is a product of the combination of hacking and big data methods, hackers will leak the user data integration and analysis, and then centralized archiving of a place. Social engineering databases are database query platforms built from databases of users of major websites, and "human flesh searches" are sometimes conducted by querying social engineering databases for information.

The term "social work" means social engineering, and in hacker circles it refers to a method of hacking to obtain intelligence and information. Online "human flesh searches" are an application of social engineering.

Expanded Knowledge:

Hacker is a Chinese word that originated from the English hacker, and with the emergence of the gray pigeon, the gray pigeon has become a lot of hacking technology to control other people's computers in the name of hacking, and then appeared "hacker" and "hacking. In 2012, the movie "Hacker" produced by the Movie Channel Program Center has also begun to use the word "hacker", showing the convergence of Chinese usage habits.

In fact, hacker (or hacker) and the English original Hacker, Cracker and other meanings can not reach a complete translation, which is the Chinese and English language vocabulary formed in the development of their respective differences.

The word Hacker, initially referred to the enthusiasm for computer technology, high level of computer experts, especially programmers, and gradually differentiated into white hat, gray hat, black hat, etc., of which the black hat (black hat) is actually cracker. in the media, the word hacker often refers to those who are software hacker (software cracker), and with the hacker (black hat) opposite. hacker (black hat) is relative to the white hat.

Hackers are a group of technicians who hang out on the Internet, and they are familiar with the design and maintenance of the operation; they are good at finding out the user's passwords, and they know computers, and they are good at getting into the operating systems of other people's computers, including what some people call "ghosts", which actually means technicians and computer experts.