The Social Engineer Blog

Have you ever tried to pretend you’re someone else to get the deal to go through? If you have, then you’ve used the…

In this issue: "Gaining Access - A New Way of Thinking at APSE." Get an inside look into the 5 day APSE course designed…

In this issue: "How Smart Do You Feel?" Emotional intelligence (EI) has been a very interesting and hotly-debated topic…

In this issue: "Influence vs. Manipulation." These terms are often used interchangeably. In this newsletter we compare…

Besides some awesome luck, I exploited the laziness of the overworked public employee.

Once influence was fully understood, we worked out how we would use influence in our mock scenarios we’ve been building…

In this issue: "The Top 5 Social Engineering Mitigation Tips." Don't be the low-hanging fruit. Take the right actions…

In this issue: "Virus Propagation via Social Engineering." In this article, we discuss three social engineering…