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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How To Make Your Own Eavesdropping Social Engineering Tool

Learn how to build a home made listening device out of a power strip and baby monitor.

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DEFCON 18 Social-Engineer CTF Contest Findings Report Summary

Social engineering is a popular alternative for cyber criminals interested in operating on the cheap. After all, these…

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Social-Engineer Tool Kit 0.7 – Swagger Wagon Edition

The Social Engineer toolkit has quickly become a tool used by many professional penetration testers all over the…

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Cyber Stalking and Smart Phones – Making Social Engineering Easier

Smart phones embed the longitude and latitude of the location in the meta data of the picture making it much easier for…

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A New Era of Security Awareness Training

Our goal is to change the way people think, making them own a personal security policy that carries over from their…

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Social-Engineer Breaks a DEF CON Record

The Social-Engineer.Org CTF took off with a bang that I think was heard around the world. We have counted just a tad…

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Social Engineering – Fact versus Fiction

Despite all of our efforts to notify the public that we are not out for malicious gain it seems like this message is…

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Social-Engineer.Org CTF Update – Awareness Abounds

Malicious social engineers never hold contests, never do press releases and never warn the world they will be calling,…

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