Breaking in for NOOBZ!: Social Engineering Onsite Infiltration

Curt Klump found himself standing in a server closet in a building’s network operations center (NOC), with an official employee escort. This is just one of the highlights of his first social engineering onsite infiltration job. In part 2 in our 4… Continue reading Breaking in for NOOBZ!: Social Engineering Onsite Infiltration

Video: A Perfect Crime: The Tech and Psych of Effective Phishing

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Video and Slide Deck from EH-Net Live! Jan 2019
The InfoSec industry has done a pretty good job over the last couple of decades in protecting internal corporate infrastructure and the endpoints that made up the traditi… Continue reading Video: A Perfect Crime: The Tech and Psych of Effective Phishing

Webinar: A Perfect Crime: The Tech and Psych of Effective Phishing on Jan 31, 2019

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Join Erich Kron of KnowBe4 for a technical foundation of phishing with tools such as Modlishka and SET and how to drastically ramp up their effectiveness with proven techniques of hacking the human brai… Continue reading Webinar: A Perfect Crime: The Tech and Psych of Effective Phishing on Jan 31, 2019

Are All Social Engineers Bad?

When you think about what a social engineer does, and how influence and manipulation are used by good and bad SEs, it is easy think that to be an SE you need to have an evil personality or even have sociopathic tendencies. Is that true, are all social … Continue reading Are All Social Engineers Bad?

It Is Important To Have Ethics In Social Engineering

Over the years of being a professional social engineer (SE), I have been asked questions like, “Are you really testing your clients if you don’t use EVERY method possible?” Or, “You are acting like the bad guys, why do you need … Continue reading It Is Important To Have Ethics In Social Engineering

Book Review: Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking

In his new book, “Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking, 2nd Edition,” Chris Hadnagy really hits the mark by providing a great overview of social engineering techniques, explaining how and why they work, and giving the reader ple… Continue reading Book Review: Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking

Free Yourself from FUD

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) hold powerful influence over humans. Fear itself is a deeply powerful emotion that causes specific reactions in the brain, and uncertainty and doubt are feelings that manipulate your actions, your employees’ act… Continue reading Free Yourself from FUD