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Congratulations! You survived Black Friday and Cyber Monday (personally, I’m holding out for “Free Cookies Friday”), but what now? You could sit back and enjoy your spoils of war, ahem, I mean shopping, or you could start a new tradition: Post-Cyber-Monday checklist. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s not up there with “Free Cookie Friday” […]
People like to be appreciated and know they are good at what they do. This goes for social engineering pentesters, too. We are contracted to think like the bad guys but are actually the good guys. This means we don’t post the details of a cool hack we found to get through a specific organization’s […]
An article from Dark Reading came out earlier this month that is still getting a lot of traction in the news. What’s the big band wagon that everyone is scrambling to jump on? It’s simple. Train employees on social engineering tactics. The article points out that more than half of security professionals say that social […]
As written by Stephanie Carruthers The Social Engineering Capture The Flag (SECTF) is a competition that is held at DEF CON. The competition is comprised of two parts, an information gathering phase and live call phase. A target company is randomly assigned and the information gathering stage begins with research of the company (by only using […]
It seems like you can’t turn on the news right now and see the story about the celeb’s getting hacked. Chris was even asked to speak about it with Fox Business Network. There are a lot of sensational reports about how this “hack” occurred, but lets just sit and think for a minute. In the […]
Black tee shirts? Check. Lockpicks? Check. Credit card skimmer? Check. I would say someone is getting ready to go to Vegas for Black Hat and DEF CON. Many of you may be rolling your eyes at the thought of another “Safety First” blog. But we in education understand that repetition is the name of the game. […]
If someone had told me 4 years ago when I was sitting in my office thinking up ways to make kids cry what this little competition would have turned into, I would not have believed them. But there I sat trying to figure out how to teach kids that social engineering skills can be used […]
We are bombarded on a daily basis by marketing messages that tell us what to like, buy and even how to think. As intrusive as it can be, it is likely to continue to escalate. Clearly good marketing influences our attitudes and buying behavior. It makes sense that the more personalized and specific the marketing, […]