What A Social Engineer Can Learn from SourceCon

This whole event taught me that branching out to whole another field has taught me a lot of social engineering. I…

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Is SE The Worst Security Threat?

Last month we asked you to tell us if you think Social Engineering is the worst security threat to corporations.

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A New Breed of Hacker Con – DerbyCon 2011

Our goal with DerbyCon is to bring back an old style, community driven hacker con chocked full of amazing talks, live…

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A New Breed of Hacker Con

A New Breed of Hacker Con

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The Art of Human Hacking

In the book, Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, author Christopher Hadnagy details the world’s first…

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Social Engineering and Deception – What’s The Truth

The battle of social engineers - Does SE always involved deception or are there forms of social engineering that do not…

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The Social Engineering Stack Overflow

What is a social engineering stack overflow? stacking multiple social engineering tactics to create the perfect social…

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Creating Connections To Persuade Your Targets

Once a Social Engineer recognizes that they have effectively lowered an individual’s guard, they will utilize their…

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Gift Giving, Social Engineer Style

The individual often receiving the gift will have a compulsion to return the gift, most often with dialogue. An…

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Characteristics of an Effective and Successful Social Engineer

Even though humans are guarded about giving away personal information, crafting non-alerting dialogue can elicit…

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