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Social Engineering

91% Of All Attacks Attributable to Spear Phishing … Infograph by ProofPoint

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 in...
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Social Engineering

Ethical Boundaries of Simulated Testing

Like most days social media is flowing with opinions, perspectives, ego and testosterone 🙂 The most recent discussions that have sparked my interest have been those around what is or in many cases isn’t considered to b...
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Influence

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...
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Social Engineering

Social Engineering Tool Kit 0.5 Released

The Social Engineering Tool Kit by Dave Kennedy has been updated to 0.5, Return of the Lemon 🙂 I have only just updated my version this morning, so have not yet had time to try out the new features myself, but I have to say ...
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Training

Even Super Heroes Need Training Wheels – Learning Red Team / Pentest Skills

I am in hiring mode again at the moment for my Red Team, and this time have had more junior InfoSec applicants, and people who have little to no experience expressing an interest. Sadly, we don’t have the time to fully in...
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