TA26 – Social Engineering

This episode focus on a phenomenon called social engineering. This
form of hacking deals with the highest layer in IT-Security, the
human being, also known as “user”. I spoke with logan from the
social-egnineer podcast about his work as a penetration tester, the
risks of social media and social proof. topics: • penetration
testing and security audits • history of social engineering • risk
of social media exploitation • stay secure through paranoia,
education and responsible usage • history of logan • NLP, NHR
and Mikroexpressions • science in the field of Social engineering
links: • Social-Engineer.org (including resources and podcast) •
Book Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-Art-Human-Hacking/dp/0470639539/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301324145&sr=8-1
• Homepage of the book Social Engineering: The Art of Human
Hacking http://www.social-engineer.com/ • WP: Social
Engineering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security) • WP:
NLP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming • WP:
NHR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro_Hypnotic_Repatterning • WP:
Framing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology) • Blippy -
Tool to announce your credit card purchases http://blippy.com/ •
Creepy - Tool to analyse gps data in Fotos
http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy/ • Newsletter with
the social engineering report on a blippy user
http://www.social-engineer.org/newsletter/SocialEngineerNewsletterVol02Is06.html
• Report about Social Engineering on DefCon18
http://www.social-engineer.org/resources/sectf/Social-Engineer_CTF_Report.pdf
• WP: Mikro Expression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression
• WP: Joe Navarro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Navarro •
homepage of Joe Navarro http://www.jnforensics.com/ •
Great Acting Class DVD
http://www.amazon.com/Uta-Hagens-Acting-Class-DVDs/dp/B0001Z3IHG