Ethical Hackers, or white hat hackers, use social science principles from psychology and sociology to test an organization’s defense against human hacking, a practice known as social engineering. Social engineering is a manipulation tactic used to gain access to systems or valuable information by tricking people into revealing passwords or performing actions that compromise security….

I am an Old Dominion University student, majoring in Cybersecurity. I changed my major from Criminal Justice to Cybersecurity due to the increasing demand of this field.