I've recently finished book The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin Mitnick
The book was released on 4th December 2002. Not talking only about techniques described in this book, but are the ways used by social-engineers still a threat today?
I think that now, as we moved at least 10 years from the book and issues described in it, we should be immune to such attacks, as we can quickly verify any information presented to us and with possibilities to use cyphering, high-speed mobile network connections, privileges control systems, biometric identification, etc...
Do I live in false sense of safety, or is it fear speaking from me?
And now you can think about, whether it was an social engineering
social engineering to ask such question and get all your valuable knowledge, or not. :-)
:-)