The art of fighting in the shadows. Characteristics of social engineering in the information operations Cover Image

Arta de a lupta din umbră. Valențe ale ingineriei sociale în operațiile informaționale
The art of fighting in the shadows. Characteristics of social engineering in the information operations

Author(s): Claudiu Marius Ionescu
Subject(s): Media studies, Security and defense, Military policy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: INFOSFERA - Revista de studii de securitate si Informații pentru Apărare
Keywords: social engineering; International conflict; INFO-OPS; hybrid warfare; strategic manipulation; propaganda;

Summary/Abstract: Throughout history, industrial revolutions have led to major changes in areas such as economics, politics, justice, ecology, etc. and have generated technological innovations that have always been found in new approaches to military affairs. The industrial society as we know it for more than a century is gradually turning into an information society and will recursively generate changes in the thinking of military strategies. In the current age of the Internet the truth can be killed at any time (if this is useful) because the trend of societies is shifting from an environment based on technological tools to an environment based on mass social engineering, extremely refined, subtle combinations between technology manipulation and dependence.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 59-66
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian