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Social Engineering

Twitter Stalking with Bing Maps … Recontastic

So this is pretty old news as I think it was first announced on the Interwebs in mid to late 2010 and I could have swarn I blogged about it, but apparently not, perhaps it was just a tweet, who knows. Anyway, in the Maltego cla...
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Social Engineering

Facebook Graph … Social Engineering OSINT gets Graphical

So Facebook currently have a new offering in beta form, and its called ‘Facebook Graph’. Woopie Doo I hear you cry, but it may actually be something to sauce up your Social Networking OSINT a little more if you are ...
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Manipulation

Whats my motivation darling? … The Pretext

There are many essential skills required to be successful at social engineering, and one we have mentioned before but never really gone into is Pretexting. The easiest way I find to describe a pretext is to consider the motivat...
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Conferences

Head Hacker Speaking at Hash Days 2010… Switzerland Security Conference

Hashdays – the premier technical security conference in the center of Switzerland organized by DEFCON Switzerland. During 4 days the center of Switzerland will become also the center of IT security knowledge transfer. On ...
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Misdirection

Faking It To Make It … Fake Data Generation Recommendations List

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 ...
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