The technique when a hacker attacks not a computer, but a person working with a computer, is called social engineering. Social hackers are people who know how to “hack a person” by programming him to perform the desired actions. The book describes the arsenal of the main tools of a modern social hacker (transactional analysis, neurolinguistic programming), numerous examples of social programming (science , studying the programming of human behavior) and methods of protection against social hacking. The book will be useful to IT specialists, enterprise security officers, psychologists studying social engineering and social programming, as well as PC users, since they are often chosen by social hackers as the most convenient targets. For a wide range of readers.