Blagging

Blagging may refer to any of the following:

1. To blag or blagging is slang that describes a social engineering act of obtaining someone else's personal information without their concent. For example, a person (blagger) could know some information about a person and use it to trick a person or computer into gaining account access.

Because blagging is gaining access to someone else's information without permission it's considered illegal and if caught can result in prosecution.

2. Blag and blagging is a misspelling for "blog" and "blogging." For information about these terms see our weblog page.

Computer security terms, Computer slang, Phishing, Social engineering