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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Derren Brown Pushed To The Edge … A Good Reminder

Tuesday the 12th January 2016, Derren Brown returned to our screens and presented us with Pushed To The Edge. The premise for the show was to demonstrate how social compliance can influence behaviour, and how plausible would it...

The Idiots That Get Socially Engineered

We are all familiar with Social Engineering, we experience it every day, its covered in the media and is utilised in various different contexts. However, a common theme that I read about, but also have people talk to me about i...

Subjects lend me your ears… Especially the right one!

Language and communication is of great importance when it comes to manipulation as part of social engineering, or any situation where you want to try and get your way. So it would be interesting to learn that your double your c...

How To Integrate Metasploit with BeEF … Browser Exploitation Framework

So the Browser Exploitation Exploitation Framework (BeEF) has some awesome exploitation modules of its own, but when you combine it with the added awesome sauce that is Metasploit you get to have even more fun. Its like a Socia...