The SEVillage Wrap-up from DEF CON 27
If you’ve been asking yourself, “Was DEF CON just a crazy dream?” “Why does it feel like I was hit by a train?” “Are things really back to everyday life without 25,000 friends to hang out with?” Just know that we feel the same way.
Even before we ran the SEVillage at DEF CON 27 from August 8-11, we had some of the team in Las Vegas for our Advanced Practical Social Engineering (APSE) training…
Social-Engineer Newsletter Vol 09 – Issue 116
A Beginner’s Insight into Vishing
In 2015, the term “vishing” was added as an official word in the Oxford Dictionary. At the time, many had never heard of the expression before. Social-Engineer defines vishing as, “the practice of eliciting information or attempting to influence action via the telephone.” Similar to phishing, the goal of vishing is to obtain valuable information that could…
The SEVillage at DerbyCon was…. AH-MAZING
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October brought Social-Engineer to the SEVillage at DerbyCon 8.0 - Evolution, SEORG’s final SEVillage for the year, and WOW, was it an AMAZING DerbyCon. Ryan and Colin arrived Tuesday to set up shop and stuff many padfolios to prepare for their OSINT class that ran over Wednesday and Thursday. The OSINT class was Social-Engineer’s largest class EVER and it sold out in…
The SEVillage Wrap-up from DEF CON 26
The Social-Engineer team is collectively wrapping up their annual post-DEF CON foggy state, unburying from their backlog, and reminiscing on the amazingness that was the SEVillage at DEF CON 26. Can we say “WOW?” This was the SEVillage’s biggest (and arguably best) year yet and, though it has taken a full two weeks to overcome basic-survival-mode and re-enter society as fully productive humans,…
DEF CON 25: The SEVillage Wrap-Up
It's been 3 weeks (give and take a few days) since DEF CON 25. As a team we've been living on copious amounts of caffeine and DayQuil, working through our ConFlu. Now that the fevers have lowered we have finally put ourselves together enough to start reliving all the amazing moments we had at DEF CON.
DEF CON 25 was held on July 27-30, at Caesars Palace. However, some of the SE team prefaced…
THE SOCIAL ENGINEERING CAPTURE THE FLAG ROUNDUP
As sophisticated, targeted attacks become increasingly prevalent, today’s organizations are being challenged, now more than ever. In effort to shed light on the nature of these types of attacks, Social-Engineer hosts an annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) competition at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas. At this conference the security elite demonstrate vulnerabilities…
DEF CON 22: The SEVillage 2.0
The sweat has finally dried and we are back to the normal swing of things here at Social-Engineer. I scoff at my own ridiculous self as I write that sentence and say, “What is normal?”
But never-the-less, we wanted to give you a small glimpse of the craziness that was DEF CON 22 and the SEVillage. Let’s start off by saying that this was the best year so far. The best in regards to the…
Defcon 20 – What the heck just happened?
We are going to take a break from our normal posting and just give a general and probably very long post about the events that lead up to Defcon 20. Defcon 20 proved to be one of the hardest yet most rewarding events we have been a part of since we started on our social-engineer.org journey.
First let's start a twelve months before Defcon 20... Defcon 19 had just ended and Jim aka _Elwood_…