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Re: Social Engineering ... ?
From: richardw <richardw () area52 allserve net>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:35:38 -0600
So true - the Feds have been dumpster diving and going through people's trash long before the nice folks at Defcon were.
Salespeople too - I worked at a company where one of my peers was having a hard time get a big order for networking equipment, so the bribed the customer's assistant to login as the customer and enter the P.O. Of course the assistant cracked and she eventually got fired, but she got her huge bonus for making the sale.
Maybe a some psychology courses, not necessarily a full-blown four year undergrad program, might be an option as well?
Rob Shein wrote:
In truth, I wouldn't focus necessarily on it from a geek perspective...I'd look at it from the standpoint of those who do nothing BUT social engineer, without the other technical aspects. This would be sales techniques, and the methods of grifters, confidence men and intelligence officers. The last category is probably a bit harder to get information on, but there are a lot of things out there both in the worlds of fiction and non-fiction to get you going on the rest.-----Original Message-----From: Bones [mailto:the.bones () gmail com] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:12 PMTo: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: Social Engineering ... ?I am sure this has been asked here several times before, but if everyone could indulge me I would be grateful.I am trying to find some good resources for social engineering methodologies and such performed as part of pen-test work.Books, links, previous SF posts (date/subject) etc. are all welcome. Thanks all, Bones the.bones-at-gmail.com
Current thread:
- Social Engineering ... ? Bones (Nov 22)
- RE: Social Engineering ... ? Rob Shein (Nov 23)
- Re: Social Engineering ... ? richardw (Nov 24)
- Re: Social Engineering ... ? Jay D. Dyson (Nov 23)
- RE: Social Engineering ... ? dave kleiman (Nov 24)
- Re: Social Engineering ... ? ctg (Nov 24)
- RE: [in] Social Engineering ... ? Curt Purdy (Nov 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Social Engineering ... ? Marco Ivaldi (Nov 23)
- Re: Social Engineering ... ? David Hodges (Nov 23)
- RE: Social Engineering ... ? mthompson (Nov 25)
- RE: Social Engineering ... ? Keith T. Morgan (Nov 26)
- Re: Social Engineering ... ? webmaster (Nov 27)
- RE: Social Engineering ... ? Rob Shein (Nov 23)