Social engineering reloaded

Social engineering reloaded
Sarah Granger

The purpose of this article is to go beyond the basics and explore how social engineering, employed as technology, has evolved over the past few years. A case study of a typical Fortune 1000 company will be discussed, putting emphasis on the importance of education about social engineering for every corporate security program.

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Social engineering reloaded 2006-03-14
Anonymous

I wish people would get off the idea that dumpster diving is social engineering... there is absolutely no social component to it... if you sit for the CISSP and give dumpster diving as an answer you will get it wrong! It is purely a physical access issue....

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Social engineering reloaded 2006-03-16
John Smith

My favorite social engineering scenes are in 'Sneakers'. There are several excellent examples that use multiple techniques of human exploitation in conjunction to acheive the attacker's goals....

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Social engineering reloaded 2006-03-21
Roger Moore

I thought the part about companies having employees wear t-shirts and other paraphanelia was interesting. At my company one of the IT admins started posting these stickers around the office ( http://www.supersecuritysticker.com/ ) at first they were funny, but it also made a point, we ended up insta...

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Social engineering reloaded 2006-03-21
nex

sneaking into a room that is guarded by people who already know that you're the enemy is *not* social engineering....

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Social engineering reloaded 2006-03-24
Anonymous

I'm not so sure that Company X is average. I think Company X might be better than average, to judge by my experience at several employers and clients.

The following story about Company Y is based on a real company I experienced recently, thinly disguised. Now I jot it down like this, it actually ...

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Social engineering reloaded 2006-05-15
Todd Smeed

I can't beleive the forgot the best ones of all... the movie Sneakers, it's loaded with them.

In all seriousness though, Social Engineering is a serious oversite of IT personnel in small and large corp. I spent several year travelling throughout the US to various high end hotels and casinos on b...

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Social engineering reloaded 2007-08-31
Anonymous

Are u kidding me no Matrix.

Matrix is the Best of the Best....

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