Subliminal Hacking
The Art and Science of Social Engineering


 
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Wasting Time With The PC Wizard Scammers … Fixing The Problems You Never Knew You Had

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...
by Dale Pearson
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How To Collaborate With Maltego … Rolling Your Own XMPP Server

* I started this post in Feb 2014 but it took me a while to actually finish it 🙁 Aside from mentioning Maltego in my recommended OSINT Tools List, I have never gone into any detail about this awesome tool from Paterva. The m...
by Dale Pearson
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This or That … The Fatal Aggressive Close

Influence and or manipulation is always an interesting topic, and we may often ask ourselves why we came to the conclusion that made us act in a certain way. In the past I have spoken about how we can do the mini brain buffer o...
by Dale Pearson
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OSINT Tools … Recommendations List

Free OSINT Tools. With the New Year fast approaching I thought now would be a great time to post the first draft of some recommended Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering tools and resources. I will look to maintain this l...
by Dale Pearson
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Text Message Scammers … ID Theft Attempt & Run

Thought I would share some info on a text scam I got a few weeks ago. I setup a fake email account, got a burner number to make relevant calls and generated fake name, address, card number etc to see how these guys would respon...
by Dale Pearson
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