Re: Social Engineering

[Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net>]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:06 +0000, coder wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am currently planning on writting a thesis on social engineering, I have
> been fascinated with this subject since I watched Hackers 2/Takedown and
> read Kevin Mitnick's book.
>
> Now before I fully take on this idea, what products currently exist to
> minimize/prevent social engineering? If anyone saw Hackers 2/Takedown,
> Tsutomu Shimomura used a program that could tell him if the person on the
> phone actually exists in a company, does this sort of software exist?

Of course it does, it's called the company directory, most companies
have them. The good social engineers have either hacked the directory
already or are using names of someone that they know is in there.

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With Regards..
Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue

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