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Social Engineering Yourself A BotNet

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Not too long ago the announcement about an Internet Sponsorship Law, SOPA, basically caused the Internet to blow up with people voting, supportingBotNet Social Engineering Yourself A BotNet, and showing how much they disliked this proposed bill. The way the “Internet Community” came together is a lesson in mass influence itself, but we are going to focus on a different aspect of this drama.

The hacktivist group Anonymous reared its head in this debate to show it’s disdain for any law that would censor or prohibit the use of the Internet, and they do so using a form of social engineering.

One of the less influence based forms of social engineering involves drawing people to a website that is either loaded with malicious software/code or has downloads that are dangerous or infected. Apparently, Anonymous used this form of social engineering to create, in essence, one of the world’s largest botnets full of unsuspecting participants.
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Social-Engineer.org is GROWING!

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Social Engineer.org is GROWING!After returning from Defcon 19 and another successful Social Engineering Capture the Flag competition, the team at Social-Engineer.org decided it was time to add a few staff members to help grow the business and to help promote Social Engineering. We put a call out for interns and the response was overwhelming. Literally hundreds of people responded to the call with resumes and letters asking to be part of the team.

The first choice was easy. Enter Dan aka “miNG”, a long time slave, errand boy, Defcon gimp, and information gatherer for Social-Engineer.org. Dan has been helping Social-Engineer.org for over three years now. When asked what he loved about Social Engineering, Dan cited the power and flexibility of the craft along with it’s everyday practical uses. His help to the organization has been invaluable and to recognize that, Social-Engineer.org would like to officially welcome Dan to the team! Dan will continue his duties as a slave and will assist in information gathering, as well as keeping order on the IRC channel and various other duties to be announced.

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Defcon 19 – Lessons Learned

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

As Defcon came rolling around we knew that this year would be different.  Being the second year of the SE CTF as well as the first ever Defcon Kids event with a special Social Engineering CTF for Kids, we knew this year would be special.

scoreboard 2011 blog Defcon 19 Lessons LearnedWe wanted to take a minute to recap some of the events and lessons learned from Defcon 19 and talk about our plans for next year.

Defcon 19′s new venue really was a few dozen steps above the Riv.  Our room set up and everything went ultra smooth.  Pyr0, Grifter and the crew did an amazing job with the organization as well as the layout of the events.  These guys know how to make stuff happen, and it did.  When we got to the room we had no walls, or chairs or tables and with in an hour we were set up.  Really an amazing job.  The fact that our feet didn’t stick to the floor when we walked down the hallway or bathrooms was an added bonus. icon smile Defcon 19 Lessons Learned

The room that they gave us this year was easily 5-10 times bigger than last year.  Our first concern was of course keeping it interesting enough to keep the room packed.  The first day we had to announce that our premier target for the CTF couldn’t participate this year, so Kevin Mitnick and Chris who planned on making that call couldn’t do it.  Kevin came in and did a nice 30-40 speech on SE and answered some Q&A.  It was an excellent speech and good way to kick off the event.

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How Strong Is Your Schmooze Kids Edition

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

Each Year Defcon is known for testing the limits and pushing the boundaries.  Defcon 19 will be no exception to that.  The Social-Engineer.Org SE KidsCTF2 How Strong Is Your Schmooze Kids EditionCTF at Defcon 19 is fully under way with some amazing surprises in store for this year.  But why stop there?  In conjunction with Defcon, Social-Engineer.Org is hosting the first ever KIDS CTF.  As part of the 2 day long Security For Kids Con, SEORG will be running a “How Strong is Your Schmooze – Kids Edition” Social-Engineering CTF just for the kids.

How will this work?

We are presently taking registrations for the Kids Social-Engineering CTF.  Once the submissions are in, kids will be placed into teams of 2 or 3.  Friday night of Defcon we will host a small lecture to educate the kids on some very interesting aspect of social engineering.

Then Saturday we will meet the teams again in the morning and give them a very special Social-Engineer.Org Dossier Packet that will contain clues they must solve to receive the next packet.  Each stage will involve either cipher decryption, lock picking, elicitation, pretexting and of course good old fashion social engineering skills.

The first 2 teams to achieve all the skills, get all their packets and solve all the clues will be dubbed the winners of the “How Strong is your Schmooze – Kids Edition” and will be presented their prizes at the closing ceremonies at Defcon on Sunday afternoon.

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The Schmooze Strikes Back

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

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Social-Engineer.Org’s mission has been to raise awareness for social engineering and the role it plays in targeted attacks against companies today.

As security technology advances attackers are increasingly leveraging social engineering techniques in order to gain unauthorized access to global organizations and fortune 500 companies.

In our continued efforts to raise awareness – Social-Engineer.org is proud to announce the Defcon 19 Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) 2: “The Schmooze Strikes Back”.  Using the lessons we learned from Defcon 18, we expect to once again set new standards for raising (more…)

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