"Many good books to help learn hypnosis.
Check out Reality is Plastic by Anthony Jaquin."
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Reality Bending … Online Hypnosis Training with James Brown
Posted July 24, 2016 by Dale Pearson
Subscribers and regular visitors to the blog will know I am a fan of hypnosis, and like most things I am passionate for I am always on the look out to discover new ways of doing things, gaining perspective of others and generally a healthy thirst for knowledge. You will of noticed I have purchased […]
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Secrets of PickPocketing … Online Training with The Professional Opportunist
Posted March 11, 2016 by Dale Pearson
Back in October 2012 I attended a Pickpocket Training Day with Professional Opportunist James Brown, and I blogged about it on this site here. It was a great session and many people have asked me about it, but not everyone has the time to travel, or may have logistical and financial constraints based on geographical […]
Misdirection
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Faking It To Make It … Fake Data Generation Recommendations List
Posted July 17, 2015 by Dale Pearson
Depending on your history and how you got into InfoSec you may or may not of been exposed to the world of developer testing, if you did I am sure you have many unhappy memories of arguing why “real” data should not be used in the testing world, and if like me you have horror […]
Social Engineering
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91% Of All Attacks Attributable to Spear Phishing … Infograph by ProofPoint
Posted December 11, 2013 by Dale Pearson
I just received an email from Proofpoint, and its another one of their great Infographs. This is a great Infograph re-enforcing the fact that it only takes a single breach for the cost to be significant. Not surprisingly the information shows that 91% of All Attacks have some form of phishing attribution, and 95% of […]
Subliminal Hacking
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Wasting Time With The PC Wizard Scammers … Fixing The Problems You Never Knew You Had
Posted November 20, 2013 by Dale Pearson
So its a cold Monday morning in November 2013 and the phone rings, who could this be? Sadly its not someone calling me to tell me there are millions of pounds to be had if I can just send some money over, instead it turns out I have computer issues, but the friendly certified Microsoft […]
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Welcome and thanks for visiting the Head Hacker website. The goal of this site is to discuss the benefits, process, theories and qualities associated with social engineering, and what I consider to be linked skills, products an...
Quick Post – What We See Isn’t Always What We Get
Quick illusion based post to share with you this time. One of my little side projects is working on solving the Rubik’s cube quickly and it reminded me of a great anamorphic illusion that demonstrates that what our eyes s...
Cialdini’s 6 Rules of Influence.. Pick your weapon wisely
Robert Cialdini was a professor of psychology at Arizona State University until late 2009, when I believe he retired. So if you have not heard of this guy, I think your missing out on some valuable information. After many years...
Mind Reading … The Outer Body Experience
We have spoken before about the importance of commitment when it comes to social engineering and manipulation. The commitment to be the delivery guy, engineer and so on. However, I think there is another important skill to be s...
Common Practice to Witchcraft … Why do we challenge before exposure?
This months post is really a rant, but hopefully still has some informative value 🙂 A few weeks ago now Chris Nickerson and I were discussing some research on influence and manipulation, some of which was in relation to Ross...
